Fresh Sheet: Sky’s limit for moms’ fish biz
Two Spokane-area moms who met at a play group have started a business to bring restaurant-quality fish and seafood to your doorstep.
Heather Lanzone of Spokane and Melissa Brown of Liberty Lake are the women behind Front Door Seafood, an online company that sources high-end seafood such as halibut, salmon, shrimp and lobster and delivers it to your home.
“We just sat around talking about kids all the time and decided we should do something different with our brains and start a business,” says Lanzone, who used to own a flower shop in Montana.
They both agreed they loved seafood but couldn’t find anything spectacular in the area. So, they hooked up with distributors who sell to “white tablecloth” restaurants, Lanzone says.
“It’s the high end of the high-end stuff that we’re selling,” she says. “Our stuff isn’t cheap but it’s the best stuff we can get.”
Six 6-ounce portions of halibut, for example, cost $47.99, and a two-pound bag of colossal uncooked shrimp is $25.99. There’s a $75 minimum order.
All items come individually frozen.
Customers can place orders and find more information, including recipes, by logging on to www.frontdoorseafood.com. Reach Front Door Seafood by calling (509) 868-6073 or (509) 924-1530.
Small community, big money
The 16th annual Odessa (Wash.) Healthcare Foundation Wine Tasting and Auction takes place at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Odessa Community Center, southwest of Spokane on Highway 28.
This year’s event will raise money for a new digital X-ray machine for Odessa Memorial Hospital. The small-but-mighty community of fewer than 1,000 residents typically raises $25,000 at this annual fundraiser.
Ticket-holders can sample a variety of wines and appetizers while bidding on auction items, including an Alaskan fishing trip, a catered Super Bowl party, handmade quilts and other things.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.
Farmers’ market news?
A sure sign of warmer weather is the opening of farmers’ markets each year. Markets around the region are slated to welcome the season’s first customers in coming weeks. Look in next week’s Food section for more information. In the meantime, if you’re a market operator or vendor with news to share, please contact the Food section via the information below.