SEQUIM — Vick Singh, owner of India Oven in Port Angeles, sees Sequim as a commercially viable area, so he is opening a new restaurant — Tandoori Fusion Cuisine of India.
The new restaurant at 820B W. Washington St. in Sequim has a soft opening set for 11 a.m. Tuesday with a grand opening the following Tuesday, Aug. 23.
“Sequim is growing, and there’s a lot of demand for our food,” said Singh, who bought India Oven, 222 N. Lincoln St., in Port Angeles two years ago.
That restaurant has been near the Port Angeles downtown waterfront for 10 years.
“We have loyal customers from Sequim who asked us to open a restaurant here,” he said at the restaurant in Sequim where family members were helping him put finishing touches on the eateries interior.
Singh, whose brother, Ranjeet “Jeet” Singh, will continue to help manage India Oven while Vick Singh moves to Sequim, said he chose the West Washington Street location because it is near Sequim’s booming big-box stores on the city’s west side.
For Vick Singh, it was a natural move for him from Seattle to Port Angeles in 2009.
His uncle, DJ Virk, and aunt, Kelly Sandhu, opened India Oven in 2001 after having been in the restaurant business since the early 1990s in Seattle.
In 2009, Vick Singh said, “they passed the business to me. I like the business.”
An electrical engineer by trade, Singh was laid off from Microscan in Seattle, and he said he wanted to do something different in life, so he moved into the business his family knows so well.
With Tandoori Fusion, he said, “I saw the opportunity to expand” in a growing market.
Singh points to the heavily flowing traffic on West Washington Street buzzing to and from the commercial center stretching to River Road.
“A lot of the people come to shop,” he said.
“We want to be close to the big stores.”
Tandoori Fusion will have much of the same East Indian food on the menu that India Oven offers, with the “fusion” being more fish cuisine to go along with East Indian food, he said.
Fish menu items will be served on weekends, he said.
Family members were helping Singh with final touches to the restaurant last week.
The restaurant seats 60 and serves beer and wine. A bar will be opened at a later date, Singh said.
The new restaurant opens at 11 a.m. Tuesday and will remain open until 9 p.m. seven days a week.
Lunch and a buffet with five or six items will be served from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The buffet will include salad and bread.
Dinner will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
For information, phone the restaurant at 360-683-8343.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
