Blue Fish in Boca Raton’s Mizner Park suddenly closes
After an 11-month run, the sushi restaurant Blue Fish announced it shuttered its Boca Raton location effective immediately.
The Dallas-based Japanese bistro posted, in part, on Facebook: “We enjoyed meeting everyone at our Mizner Park location. We just made the difficult decision to close this location. Thank you again and we wish you a very happy and healthy New Year.”
The restaurant opened in February in the spot formerly occupied by Rack’s Downtown Eatery and Tavern, just before COVID-19 changed everything.
“Sushi is the great unifier for [Mizner Park], which hasn’t seen a lot of new restaurants lately,” general manager Todd Lawrence told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in February. “It’s a big hit for the millennials of course, but it really brings in a balance of different ages.”
This is the second time the restaurant has taken a body blow in South Florida. The brand previously had a location on Delray Beach’s buzzy Atlantic Avenue. That version closed in 2013, a victim of the recession.
The 3,000-square-foot Boca Raton restaurant had a 60-seat wraparound patio that was popular with dog owners from surrounding neighborhoods. Blue Fish was featured in a Sun Sentinel article back in September about restaurants that are leveraging their outside seating areas in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
