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 the Chicken King restaurant. The market is located in a more than 1,700-square-foot building formerly occupied by the Chinese Dragon. Seafood Heaven sells raw seafood and also offers steamed or baked seafood meals. Prices range from $10 to $35. “At the moment, we don’t have fried food, everything is steamed or baked,” Abu Ghosh explained. “It’s a healthier option. There are a lot of fried foods around this area. We try to give them more options. Every meal comes with vegetables like broccoli, corn and potatoes.” Seafood Heaven also carries groceries, but the market doesn’t have places to eat for customers. Getting Smoketown’s fresh food options, which some have called a food desert, has been a goal of the community for some time. “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 Association for Community Economics. “All five of those are here in Louisville. They’re all here in downtown and the West End and they’re all food deserts, which means residents are short on affordable, healthy food.” Seafood Heaven offers a variety of fish, shrimp, crab legs, oysters, scallops, mussels, and crawfish. Abu Ghosh spent 20 years working in restaurants in Chicago and some areas of Michigan, where he says seafood markets are popular. He moved to Louisville to open Seafood Heaven because his partner, who declined to be named, had previously lived in the city and thought the concept would work well in River City. For more information about the Fresh Seafood Market and how it can change the food footprint in that area of Louisville, you can read the entire Louisville Business First 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 the Chicken King restaurant. The market is located in a more than 1,700-square-foot building formerly occupied by the Chinese Dragon.
Seafood Heaven sells raw seafood and also offers steamed or baked seafood meals. Prices range from $10 to $35.
“At the moment, we don’t have fried food, everything is steamed or baked,” Abu Ghosh explained. “It’s a healthier option. There are a lot of fried foods around this area. We try to give them more options. Every meal comes with vegetables like broccoli, corn and potatoes.”
Seafood Heaven also carries groceries, but the market does not have places to eat for customers.
Having the freshest food options in Smoketown, which some have called a food desert, has been a goal of the community for some time.
“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 Association for Community Economics. “All five of those are here in Louisville. They’re all here in downtown and the West End and they’re all food deserts, which means residents are short on affordable, healthy food.”
Seafood Heaven offers a variety of fish, shrimp, crab legs, oysters, scallops, mussels, and crawfish.
Abu Ghosh spent 20 years working in restaurants in Chicago and some areas of Michigan, where he says seafood markets are popular. He moved to Louisville to open Seafood Heaven because his partner, who declined to be named, had previously lived in the city and thought the concept would work well in River City.
For more information about the Fresh Seafood Market and how it can change the food footprint in that area of Louisville, you can read the entire Louisville Business First article here.