Bellevue Burgermaster

This drive-in fast-food restaurant is a longtime favorite of Bill Gates, and probably your best chance of catching a glimpse of the Microsoft chairman, apart from spotting him and wife Melinda on one of their nights out at the movies in Seattle.

Burgermaster was the unofficial Microsoft cafeteria during the early 1980s, when the company was headquartered nearby. Within a few months of Microsoft moving into that space Burgermaster had become “such an essential aspect of Microsoft that a path had been cut between it and the offices, and it had acquired the ’speed dialing’ number of 611 on the Microsoft phone system,” wrote Paul Andrews and Stephen Manes in their biography of Gates.

Details: 10606 Northup Way, Bellevue. Open Sunday through Thursday 10 a.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.

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