The Blue Fish Tower served at Blue Fish Sushi. (Courtesy Blue Fish Sushi)
A Breckenridge sushi restaurant is rolling into downtown Denver.
Blue Fish Sushi, which has operated in Breckenridge for seven years, will open in roughly 3,500 square feet at 1607 Wewatta St. near Union Station, according to Julie Osborn, managing partner of the restaurant group.
“Sushi is really having a moment in Denver,” Osborn said. “Culinarily, it’s the place to be. It’s really just changed so much even the last two, three years.”
Before Blue Fish, the ground-floor restaurant was home to the Daily Grill, which closed in 2020, and seafood restaurant Wewatta Point before that. The same restaurant group owned both concepts.
Osborn, her brother Alex Lee and her parents make up the Blue Fish group. She said the family restaurant started over 25 years ago in Dallas after Lee moved there from California.
“In California, (sushi) was a thing but in Texas 30 years ago, sushi was not the way it is now,” Osborn said. “Now there’s a sushi restaurant on every block. My parents wanted to bring that to Dallas and we were one of the first sushi restaurants — probably the first — here.”
They opened the flagship Dallas location, and eventually expanded to Breckenridge, Seoul and, as of October, Hawaii. Osborn said it made sense for the family to open in their native Korea, but otherwise she joked their business model is to open restaurants where they like to vacation.
“Breck just kind of happened,” she said. “My brother, he’s an avid skier and he was just skiing and saw an opportunity, bought a house there and that was it.”
Osborn said the general manager of the Breckenridge location, James Buck, was already moving to Denver and offered to run the new location, which should open soon. She said they signed the lease a year ago, but had permitting delays. Levi Noe at NAI Shames Makovsky represented Blue Fish in the deal.
The sushi menu will be the same as Breckenridge’s, but will offer more Japanese- and Korean-style hot dishes. Osborn said the Denver location is about double the size of Breckenridge.
Across all locations, the Blue Fish Tower is the most popular item, Osborn said. It comes with salmon, tuna or tartare towered with snow crab mix, avocado, rice, caviar and wasabi cream sauce.
The other draw to Blue Fish, she said, is that it’s not a traditional Japanese restaurant. The atmosphere is fun and more catered to younger customers, and it is known for live music and happy hours.
That and 25 years’ experience, she added.
“We just have a formula, we stick to it, and we know what we do,” Osborn said.
The Blue Fish Tower served at Blue Fish Sushi. (Courtesy Blue Fish Sushi)
A Breckenridge sushi restaurant is rolling into downtown Denver.
Blue Fish Sushi, which has operated in Breckenridge for seven years, will open in roughly 3,500 square feet at 1607 Wewatta St. near Union Station, according to Julie Osborn, managing partner of the restaurant group.
“Sushi is really having a moment in Denver,” Osborn said. “Culinarily, it’s the place to be. It’s really just changed so much even the last two, three years.”
Before Blue Fish, the ground-floor restaurant was home to the Daily Grill, which closed in 2020, and seafood restaurant Wewatta Point before that. The same restaurant group owned both concepts.
Osborn, her brother Alex Lee and her parents make up the Blue Fish group. She said the family restaurant started over 25 years ago in Dallas after Lee moved there from California.
“In California, (sushi) was a thing but in Texas 30 years ago, sushi was not the way it is now,” Osborn said. “Now there’s a sushi restaurant on every block. My parents wanted to bring that to Dallas and we were one of the first sushi restaurants — probably the first — here.”
They opened the flagship Dallas location, and eventually expanded to Breckenridge, Seoul and, as of October, Hawaii. Osborn said it made sense for the family to open in their native Korea, but otherwise she joked their business model is to open restaurants where they like to vacation.
“Breck just kind of happened,” she said. “My brother, he’s an avid skier and he was just skiing and saw an opportunity, bought a house there and that was it.”
Osborn said the general manager of the Breckenridge location, James Buck, was already moving to Denver and offered to run the new location, which should open soon. She said they signed the lease a year ago, but had permitting delays. Levi Noe at NAI Shames Makovsky represented Blue Fish in the deal.
The sushi menu will be the same as Breckenridge’s, but will offer more Japanese- and Korean-style hot dishes. Osborn said the Denver location is about double the size of Breckenridge.
Across all locations, the Blue Fish Tower is the most popular item, Osborn said. It comes with salmon, tuna or tartare towered with snow crab mix, avocado, rice, caviar and wasabi cream sauce.
The other draw to Blue Fish, she said, is that it’s not a traditional Japanese restaurant. The atmosphere is fun and more catered to younger customers, and it is known for live music and happy hours.
That and 25 years’ experience, she added.
“We just have a formula, we stick to it, and we know what we do,” Osborn said.
