BUSINESS
Wallowa County Chieftain
A6
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Pier 303 to off er fresh seafood to county
BIZZ
BUZZ
By Bill Bradshaw
Enterprise couple
to open restaurant
this summer
E
NTERPRISE — Wal-
lowa County will
soon have its own
pier from which fresh sea-
food can be shipped to local
seafood lovers, as Pier 303
Seafood Market gets ready
to open.
“We called it Pier 303
because we’re trying to con-
nect the ocean to the moun-
tains, so that’s where the
idea of the pier came in,
and 303 is the address,”
co-owner Mac Freeborn
said.
Pier 303, set to open in
mid- to late-summer adja-
cent to their home on Gar-
fi eld Street in Enterprise,
will provide both fresh —
for home cooking — and
prepared seafood to custom-
ers, as well as beer and wine
to either consume on-prem-
ises or to take out, he said.
Freeborn recently received
approval for a liquor license
from the Enterprise City
Council.
Mac is the manager of
Wallowa Lake State Park
and wife, Zuly, works from
home for Edward Jones
Investments. They’re still
considering whether to step
away from those jobs as Pier
303 takes shape.
As for getting freshly
harvested seafood to Wal-
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Zuly and Mac Freeborn stand with their dog, Coda, outside what will become Pier 303 Seafood Market on Garfi eld Street in
Enterprise on Thursday, May 20, 2021. They hope to open by mid- to late-summer and bring fresh seafood to Wallowa County
from the coast.
lowa County, it’s not as sim-
ple as casting a net or reel-
ing in a line. It will have to
be shipped.
“We have several dif-
ferent vendors,” Mac said.
“One of our oyster vendors
ships within 24 hours (of
harvest), which is a really
good thing. ... Those come
out of Washington (state).
We’re working on some
other vendors to try to do
things. One of our goals is to
make trips to Newport and
pick up the fi sh on our days
off , and then it’ll be fresh.”
He also mentioned a
place in Portland that serves
as a storage drop-off for
fi shermen.
“We would just drive to
Portland and pick it up,” he
said. “We’re still working
out those details, but we’re
trying to fi gure out the way
to make it the freshest we
can.”
They anticipate a wide
variety of seafood will be
on hand.
“As much as we can,”
Mac said of their potential
off erings. “Oysters, razor
clams, stinger clams, rock-
fi sh, tuna, salmon, lob-
ster, if we can get our hands
on an abalone, Dungeness
crab, blue crab — we’re
still trying to fi gure out
everything.”
Zuly emphasized all spe-
cies will not always be
available.
“The ones that are ‘best
practices’ for catching in
season,” she said. “A lot of
fi sh are not always in sea-
son, so they’re not always
going to be fresh. So (we’ll
be) using ‘best practices’
when it comes to catching
fi sh that are in season.”
The Freeborns had hoped
to open in early summer, but
Mac had shoulder surgery,
which delayed work on the
place. They have done much
of the work themselves, with
contractors doing some.
& Skylight
Gallery
In addition to the sea-
food, Pier 303 will sell spe-
cialty retail items.
“(There will be) small,
seafood kitchen items that
you wouldn’t fi nd at your
local grocery store,” Zuly
said.
These will include items
with the Pier 303 logo, oys-
ter shuckers, fi let knives,
seasonings, spices and
canned fi sh.
While initially they’ll be
selling fi sh to go, they also
have other plans.
“Eventually, we’ll do
special events, like a fi sh-ta-
cos night and an oysters-on-
the-half-shell night and a
grilled-oyster night with the
thought that we’ll sell beer
and wine,” Mac said. “Our
focus is to not sell beer and
wine that you can fi nd in
the county … that we can
provide at a decent cost —
we’re not trying to break the
bank.”
Some of the prepared
items they plan include hal-
ibut and ceviche — a raw
fi sh dish cooked in lemon or
lime with spices and some
vegetables. Some recipes
call for cocktail sauce, some
just lemon or lime, Mac
said.
“Zuly makes a great one
with mangoes and cilantro,”
he said.
They’re eager to get the
doors open to the public,
Mac said.
“We want everyone to
come in,” he said.
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Bill Bradshaw is a
reporter for the Wallowa
County Chieftain. Have a
business tip? Contact him
at 541-398-5503 or bbrad-
shaw@wallowa.com.
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