Westsound Cafe and Kingfish Inn to reopen

So when the Kingfish Inn and Westsound Café came up for sale in Dec. 2010, they bought it.

"We love the building very much," said Nanae. "One of the reasons we got into this is we were sitting here [at the café] eating and we felt so sad it was going to go away. It was our favorite place to eat."

While Nanae will manage the four-room inn, the Fralicks have put together a formidable team to run the café: front of house manager Sami Messinger , formerly of Portofino's Pizzeria; breakfast chef Kevin Gregus, formerly of the Outlook Inn ; and dinner chef Joe Cain , former NFL linebacker for the Seattle SeaHawks and the Chicago Bears (1988-1998).

For some, the thought of a former NFL linebacker wielding a crème brulee torch or tackling adobo chicken will be enough of a draw.

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