PORT ANGELES – The downtown Crazy Fish, Baja and Beyond, is for sale.
After four years, the co-owners of the restaurant and nightclub at 229 W. First St., in Port Angeles, put up a sign this week saying the place would close following its New Year’s Eve party unless a buyer is found.
The co-owners, Cypress Vollmer and Molly Tucker, also sent out e-mail and MySpace.com messages regarding their offer.
“The response has been immediate and immense. I’m showing it today,” Tucker said.
“We’ll just really hanging on, hoping that someone local will step up and say, ‘I’ll keep it open,'” she said.
The two women said they are selling the business because of burnout from the long hours required to run a small business that serves a diverse clientele.
Tucker, a culinary school graduate who once ran a five-star restaurant in Hawaii, is moving to Edmonds, and plans to return to school.
“We’ve gone through a lot of ups and downs, but it was an experiment,” she said.
“We made it for four years.”
Vollmer, who has lived in Port Angeles and worked at the old Port Angeles Brewing Co. and Siren’s restaurants, said she’s uncertain what she might do next.
“We were young girls flying by seat of our pants,” she said.
“We learned so much. I’ll never regret it.”
“We’ve made a personal choice to do something else while we’re still young,” Vollmer said.
“We could go another four years, but we’ve laid out a great plan for someone,” she said.
Tucker, Vollmer and Summer MacDonald opened the business in December 2003.
MacDonald was bought out in December 2004.
All three are 1992 graduates of Port Angeles High School.
The restaurant, which was smoke-free before state law required it, included a full bar and featured a menu with flavors from Hawaii, Mexico and Asia, reflective of the owners’ travels.
Tucker said the two of them always laughed about running two completely different businesses, with her handling the restaurant during the day and Vollmer running the nightclub.
Although it has always drawn a heavy lunch crowd, the place wasn’t best known for its food.
