Team, as of June 16th, the Deep Horizon oil well has been spewing crude oil and gasses in into the Gulf of Mexico for 8 weeks. In addition to the crude oil, deep earth gasses are being released into the water, and man-made and introduced oil dispersants (chemicals which break the oil up and allow it to be “dissolved” into the water are being used continuously at the well head site.
The national and local media attention is growing, and along with that, concerns from customers over where a given restaurant’s seafood comes from. For 16 years, BRAVO! has been considered one of the top restaurants in Mississippi for fresh, creative seafood. Broad Street serves a good deal of shrimp and oysters, and Sal & Mookie’s has an offering of shrimp, calamari and crab.
One of the most important things we can do is help the wait staff, the cashiers and the bartenders of our restaurants by effectively and honestly providing facts about where our seafood comes from. We want to relieve the stress behind answering customer inquiries. This sheet has been created for this very purpose. ALL STAFF… FRONT HOUSE AND BACK HOUSE MUST READ AND COMPREHEND THIS. The service staff should take this information and practice it to a point where its repetition is second nature at the table, at the cash register or at the phone. If anyone has any questions, ASK. Ask the chef of your location… ask Dan.
Obviously, we have built a business by serving the BEST in quality food stuffs at all times. This crisis doesn’t change that posture one bit. We purchase from the best seafood distributors in our region. They are quality operations with a quality focus. They cannot and will not sell anything that is tainted or is potentially tainted. Still, we need to be diligent, and part of that diligence is knowing where our seafood selections come from. So, read on, learn, and be ready to repeat to our customers.
First off, any fish available for commercial sale comes from non-contaminated waters. Period. Contaminated fish and seafood will not be allowed on the market by regulatory agencies.
Calamari – China / Indonesia
Catfish – Farm raised in the Mississippi Delta
Crabmeat – East Coast Atlantic Ocean
Crawfish – China / Indonesia
Fin Fish – (Mahi, lemonfish, etc) is from the east coast and/or clean Texas western waters of the Gulf
Oysters shelled oysters are mostly from beds in Texas right now or from East coast beds . Any Gulf oysters are being stringently watched by the federal government and only harvested from beds that have been approved by federal inspectors. In the very near future, we should see a complete shift to West coast shelled oysters.
Redfish – Farm-raised in Texas
Salmon – Farm raised in Novia Scotia or Chile
Shrimp – Western pacific ocean waters of Ecuador and Peru, South America
Tuna – North Atlantic Ocean
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