A new seafood market has opened in the Smoketown neighborhood just in time for Lent, according to Louisville Business First. Seafood Heaven opened in mid-February at 600 East Broadway, near the BP gas station and Chicken King restaurant. The market is housed in a more than 1,700-square-foot building formerly occupied by China Dragon. Seafood Heaven sells raw seafood and also offers steamed or baked seafood takeout meals. Prices range from $10 to $35. “For now, we don’t have fried food, everything is steamed or baked,” explains Abughoush. “It’s a healthier option. There’s a lot of fried food around here. We’re trying to provide more options. Every meal comes with vegetables like broccoli, corn and potatoes.” the market does not have dining seating for customers. Bringing fresh food options to Smoketown, which some have called a food desert, has long been a community goal. “There are about 740 ZIP codes in this state and only five of them are majority black communities,” explained Tiffany Michelle Brown of the Louisville Community Economic Association. “All five are here in Louisville. They’re all in Downtown and the West End and all five are food deserts, meaning residents don’t have access to healthy, affordable food.” Seafood Heaven offers a variety of fish, shrimp, crab legs, clams, scallops, mussels and crabs. Abughoush spent 20 years working in restaurants in Chicago and parts of Michigan, where he said seafood markets are common. He moved to Louisville to open Seafood Heaven, where his partner, who declined to be named, said he had previously lived in the city and thought the concept would work well in the River City. To learn more about the fresh seafood market and how it could change the food footprint in that area of Louisville, you can read Louisville Business First’s full article here.
LOUISVILLE, KY – A new seafood market has opened in the Smoketown neighborhood just in time for Lent, according to Louisville Business First.
Seafood Heaven opened in mid-February at 600 East Broadway, near the BP gas station and Chicken King restaurant. The market is housed in a more than 1,700-square-foot building formerly occupied by China Dragon.
Seafood Heaven sells raw seafood and also offers steamed or baked seafood takeout meals. Prices range from $10 to $35.
“For now, we don’t have fried food, everything is steamed or baked,” explains Abughoush. “It’s a healthier option. There’s a lot of fried food around here. We’re trying to provide more options. Every meal comes with vegetables like broccoli, corn and potatoes.”
Seafood Heaven also has food, but the market does not have dining seating for customers.
Introducing fresh food options to Smoketown, which some have called a food desert, has long been a community goal.
“There are about 740 ZIP codes in this state and only five of them are majority black communities,” explained Tiffany Michelle Brown of the Louisville Community Economic Association. “All five are here in Louisville. They’re all in Downtown and the West End and all five are food deserts, meaning residents don’t have access to healthy, affordable food.”
Seafood Heaven offers a variety of fish, shrimp, crab legs, clams, scallops, mussels and crabs.
Abughoush spent 20 years working in restaurants in Chicago and parts of Michigan, where he said seafood markets are common. He moved to Louisville to open Seafood Heaven, where his partner, who declined to be named, said he had previously lived in the city and thought the concept would work well in the River City.
To learn more about the fresh seafood market and how it could change the food footprint in that area of Louisville, you can read Louisville Business First’s full article here.