Fish market, restaurant opening on Kathleen
Ah, this one’s been on hold for quite a while, but now it should be happening. Owners of Fisherman’s Market and Grill hope to open in the next week at 215 W. Kathleen Ave. (just east of Super 1 Foods) in Coeur d’Alene.
The business will have two parts – a fish market and a restaurant.
The market will offer fresh fish and seafood from two large glass-front cases. A lobster tank will be added.
The restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, will seat 48 customers at inside tables and 22 on a patio on the west side of the building. It also will offer takeout.
The store and restaurant will occupy about 5,000 square feet of the 7,000-square-foot building that previously housed an antique shop.
The grill’s menu features fresh fish and seafood, plus side dishes and beverages, including wine and beer. The menu lists 10 snacks, eight salads, nine fish-and-chips choices, eight tartars from around the world, three slaws, four fishwiches and six Baja specials. All the fish comes fresh from Alaska.
Owners Bob and Jennifer Palm and son Matthew came from Eugene, Ore., and discovered a lack of fresh fish and seafood here. So they planned their new business.
They will employ up to nine people.
Hours will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Call 664-4800.
Noodle Express expands to Post Falls
The 5,000-square-foot building under construction on the southwest corner of Highway 41-Mullan Road intersection in Post Falls will be the home of a new Noodle Express restaurant.
Occupying 3,000 square feet, the restaurant will seat 70 customers at tables and booths and also offer takeout.
The menu will include Asian salads, soups, potstickers, Japanese fried noodle dishes (yaki soba), wraps and teriyaki bowls.
The business will employ about 20 people when it opens in late October or November.
Noodle Express is a spinoff of the Mustard Seed restaurants, which started in Missoula in 1978 and now have four eateries in Montana and Spokane. Noodle Express started in Missoula in 1992 and will have seven outlets, including one in the Prairie Shopping Center in Hayden.
Check out www.mustardseedweb.com.
Military orders boost amplifier business
Not everything about the Iraq war is negative.
LCF Enterprises of Post Falls builds high-end amplifiers that either jam signals from insurgents for setting off roadside bombs or blow up the bombs when they’re not near U.S. troops.
The need for these units, plus military and commercial orders for other LCF products, has prompted the company to build a 35,000-square-foot structure at 764 S. Clearwater Loop in Post Falls. It has occupied a 5,000-square-foot building off Seltice Way since moving from Camarillo, Calif., in 1999.
Paul and Lorna Finman started the business there in 1986.
LCF will expand from eight to 16 employees when the new building in Post Falls is completed in February. The company also provides work to 30 contract manufacturers.
“We design here and outsource the work but do the final engineering and distributing here,” Paul Finman said. He graduated from Kellogg High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Google “LCF Enterprises” for more information.
This week’s tidbits
“Last week, I whined about Trader Joe’s not coming here. I’m taking a little heat because my favorite item from that West Coast store is here anyway.
Well, sort of.
At Trader Joe’s, I buy “two-buck chuck,” a Charles Schwab-brand wine that sells for under $3. Now, some stores here have OK wines for under $3. Yea!
“My brother says someone should invent a button-beeper-finder that locates your keys, wallet, cell phone, glasses, etc.
Fine. But what if you can’t find your beeper?
“The lake cruise boats must be pushing a new drink that uses 18-inch straws that are littering the beaches now.
Speaking of litter, it sure is obvious along the highways that the ditch grass is withering away and dying from the heat and lack of rain.
“This will be a busy weekend with the Parade of Homes, the Wooden Boat Show and the season finale of Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater. Take it all in.