Seabell Bakery

I love this small bakery. Its quite affordable and delicious. Friendly staff!

I’m not sure why others gave this place 3 stars when their reviews are so positive!
The bakery is small so it can maintain smaller batches! They specialize in baked buns and sandwiches. The buns are fresh and yummy! The an-pan’s were just the right amount of sweetness and good balance of filling and bread. And an-​pan man just makes anyone smile! :)
They have typically Japanese style pan and also some that are more Hawaiian style. There are white bread fruit sandwiches as well!
Can’t wait to go back next time and try the curry dog! Mmmm…

Very unique little Japanese bakery with daily specials like bento lunch meals, spam onigiri and fruit salad sandwiches.

An pan dreams fulfilled. Sweet owners, super fresh selection, nifty for last minute dinner party b.y.o.buns
They’ve got numerous traditional Japanese nums & other goodies that totally remind me of my little Asian bakeries growing up in Hawaii and overseas. If you’re hankering a fresh meaty musubi, come here.
Parking can be squishy & scary as my people are sketchy drivers, but the fluffy delectable curry ball & pig face bun are totally worth it.
This itty bitty baked good store is a tradition for my pack of carbhounds and always will be.
Ichiban = Seabell.

Not a big selection of bakery items, but they have some unique-​looking buns. They have some buns that are made into cute characters and animals. And I really like their little selection of fried foods and appetizers.

Seabell bakery. This place is small with limited selections, but it’s very cute! Daily fresh baked fluffy bread and a selection of refrigerated goods too to satisfy your carb cravings.
This store is located next to Tofu 101, which is super cause I love the place next door as well! I bought an Anpan Man and Piggy bread along with a hot dog (pretzel dog clone).
Anpan Man was delicious. He was filled with a red bean sweet paste that was not too sweet, which is what I like! Piggy, sadly, did not quite live up to my expectations. :(Piggy was filled with a «chocolate» cream filling. The hot dog was okay; the meat itself was a little dry but the bread is good.
Overall, it was a nice visit! I would definitely come here again to surprise my little cousins with Anpan Man!

Awesome little Japanese bakery in Bellevue, but I must emphasize «little» as this place truly is tiny and thus has a rather limited selection. But they offer low prices and some of the best cheese bread I’ve ever had. It’s worth driving a long distance for this modest bakery. Their small staff does a great job of making their own bread. It’s such a shame they’re not able to expand. I’ve been a fan of Seabell for years and am still impressed with what they make.

It’s more than just a bakery — it’s a bakery with deli section. Very affordable pricing. The place is small so don’t expect seating area; take-​out only. There are plenty of parking lots outside right across from the Factoria Mall, which makes this place a perfect quick-​and-​go asian snack heaven.
Today I picked up …
A red-​bean pastry & chicken salad sandwich from bakery section.
A small size of cold seaweed salad from the deli section.
A small container of gourmet dashi soy sauce from kitchen staple section.
Oh the chicken sandwich! Delicious! Chunky chicken creamed in light mayo-​base dressing with a hint of sundries tomato, nestled between crispy iceberg lettuce and shokupan (japanese style white bread). I’m a biiiig fun of this sammy.
Red-​bean bun. Good! Liked the salt nuance in the dough.
Seaweed salad, this is a hit too! Much tastier than Uwajimaya version.
All so well done. Only one and small issue is the labeling. If each item had a time/​date stamp on the bag or container that would have been helpful for me to choose items with ease. But that’s just a minor issue. Everything turned out great anyway.
If I had been hungrier I could have picked up oden and okara… and maybe chocolate filled adorable pastries for my Japanese friends… Oh well next time!

I am hooked on the spam rice roll. It’s normally by the front register. I can do without the dark sauce on it, though. Yet, it’s still delicious! I tried couple of other sweet pastries, but I forgot the names. They were all delicious! Whenever I’m in the area, I always make a stop and get a bunch of goodies!

Their hamkatsu sandwich is the best among any other Japanese sandwich/​bakery places! (FYI, this is not a burger place, sandwich place.) I also recommend their curry dog, kinpira dog, croq dog, yakisoba dog, and ham&corn bun.
This reminds me of real Japanese home made bakeryThe quantities per day are limited so if you come late, pretty much many items are sold out.

That other user, George K., has no clue what he’s talking about. This bakery is as legitimate as it comes for a Japanese bakery outside of Japan. The bread is sweet and tender and the selection is identical to what’s offered in Japan, just more limited. They absolutely have hot dog pastries in the «high-​end» neighborhoods. Completely disregard what George wrote for his review and see it for yourself.

If I could, I would rate Seabell as 3 ½ stars.
We stopped by after getting some tofu next door. While the place isn’t very big, there is a decent selection of warm baked goods, cold sandwiches, and bento boxes. The price is decent, and the women working there were friendly. We got some cream filled buns, a cold tonkatsu and a cold ham and cheese sandwich, a half loaf of white bread and a musubi. Everything was good, but I would probably pass on the tonkatsu sandwich next time.
Tofu 101 and Seabell would have to be two places to stop by if you are in this section of Factoria.

Simple Japanese Bakery with limited selection compared to Chinese Bakeries.
Melon Pans — Really good if they are made well (like the picture they posted on Unilocal). But oftentimes they are over baked/​dark and really small
Red Bean Bread — only good when fresh and baked same day. They often sell 1 – 2 day old loafs, which I hate. You pay the same price, I don’t expect old dry bread
French Loaf Bread — Really soft bread. One of the few that is always made perfectly
Raisin Loaf Bread — Really soft and delicious. It’s like eating air. But sometimes they are not consistent. They have been here for years, I would expect that they have the temperature and time down.
Nutella Bread — Decent. Sometimes too much chocolate, making it too sweet. Also sometimes overbaked, dry and way too small
Mochi Bun — interesting take. Good.
Tempura — Good, but smells very oily. I think they need to change the oil
Seaweed Salad — Yummy if you like seaweed
Main thing is that they are not consistent!
But overall a good bakery

The pastries you get here tastes decent and the price is much cheaper than other Japanese bakeries in the area.
You can definitely tell that the pastries here are not meant to compete with other French /​Japanese bakeries that strive for quality and artistic aesthetic. This is a place where you get nostalgic and everyday Japanese pastries consumed by various age groups.
Whenever I get a chance to visit this area, I always look forward to grab few pastries from here.

I like coming here when I’m in need of a Japanese sweet pastry or something savory for lunch. It’s just right down the hill from work so it’s convenient and easy to walk to. I love getting their hot dog curry bun or tuna bun (which there is a proper name for). I also like their pork tonkatsu sandwich! Sometimes I like to pick up a loaf of their shokupan to make french toast with. So good! Way better than using regular sliced bread from the grocery store. The service is super friendly and the prices are great!

I love this bakery! Everything I have tried there is delish. I have had their sandwiches. The tuna bun, hotdog bun, hotdog curry bun, custard bun, mocha bun, and red bean mochi.

One thing I loved when traveling to Japan was enjoying the many pastries and loved the bread there. This bakery is pretty much the closest thing you’re gonna get to enjoying Japanese pastries! They also have other goodies like sandwiches and appetizers.

The people who work there are pleasant Japanese folks, the stuff is not expensive, and the place is clean. But this does exhaust the good things you can say about it. I don’t know what a «seabell» is, but the proper name for the place would be «The Hot Dog Bun Bakery.» I’m sure Japan has rubbish food, just as we have our hot dog buns here in America. But in this bakery, the only thing you can get is hot dog buns, typically stuffed with red bean paste. No problem with red bean paste, but hot dog buns!!! The texture is rubbish and the taste is, well, hot dog buns!
I have spent some time in Japan, but generally staying in the classier neighborhoods. So the sweets shops I encountered were high quality. I’m sure if I had been hanging around the working-men’s quarters I would have found bottom of the barrel bakeries and quite likely they might be similar to Seabell. Generally I think this kind of thing is a poverty versus affluence issue. Most Mexican restaurants in the US are rubbish, because they’re run by very poor people who don’t know any better cooking. But you go visit the larger Mexican cities and you can find some very high quality restaurants, since the upscale restaurateurs had no reason to flee Mexico and come to the US.
In Bellevue, the Fuji bakery has slid down hugely since it opened, but you can still get some tasty stuff there, although it’s not a big selection nowadays. Go there instead, and at least you won’t think that all of Japanese baking is rubbish.
When I visited Seabell yesterday, their featured item was Spam-​stuffed buns. I am not making this up. S-​P-​A-​M. I know there are some Hawaiian folks who like this kind of stuff, so maybe they should come here. But for the rest of us, we watch Monty Python instead, which is much healthier.
They also featured sandwiches apparently made of Wonder Bread with the crust cut off, and filled with marmalade. Again, to each his own.

They close at 6 and run out of the good stuff quickly so come early! Their white bread loafs are soft and delicious. The chocolate/​vanilla custard cones are my boyfriend’s favorite. They even have some frozen goods like mochi ice cream and udon noodles (so you can take it home to cook). They even have spam musubi at lunch (though I didn’t try it so I can’t comment on taste). Check it out, you might be pleasantly surprised!

A friendly Japanese bakery that makes quite specialized breads. Tend to be more glutenly chewy, with Asian theme ingredients (sesame loaf?) and meant to be eaten by themselves (not the starch element of a meal).
They are cute and interesting, and not your normal European-​style bakery, in terms of breads. Worth trying.