Our Company

Wholesale (and Retail) Sales Prime Seafood LLC is a 7 year old wholesale distributor providing what we believe is the best seafood in the world to chefs of the most discriminating restaurants in the nation's capital area including downtown Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas including now Baltimore, Annapolis and Alexandria.  We are the ONLY seafood distributor in the Washington area supplying ONLY sustainable seafood items, and we advocate for our chefs to adopt sustainable seafood programs for their restaurants.  The company was formed in January of 2004 by our principal, James R. Chambers, a fisheries biologist with over 35 years of national and international experience (for his background, click here). He is joined by Joe Boncore as Director of Operations. Joe has worked in the kitchens of many Washington-area restaurants where he rose to become an Executive Chef.  He has also been a professional basketball player in Europe, a professional boxer in California while attending culinary school and a member of the U.S. Army's Special Forces.  He received his bachelors degree from Jacksonville University where he played basketball on scholarship.  Born in Sicily, he speaks Italian, Spanish and English fluently.  In July of 2011, Dan Beck joined the team as Manager of Atlantic Coast Operations.  After graduating from James Madison University, he chose to follow the sea as a charterboat captain, commercial fisherman and licensed seafood dealer.  Dan intimately knows both seafood and the restaurant business as he has owned four restaurants on Cape Hatteras, NC. Prime Seafood LLC is backed by $5 million in liability insurance.  We supply fresh fish and shellfish only from those populations that are robust and managed sustainably and which do not contain dangerous levels of contaminants (such as carcinogens found in "farm-raised" salmon).  Our chefs tell us that our seafood is the highest quality and freshest available in the Washington D.C. area.   We usually buy our seafood directly from fishermen, fly or truck them in overnight, deliver them in one of our two refrigerated trucks (which are empty at the end of the day) and repeat the process Monday through Friday year-round.  Consequently, our customers are delivered seafood which usually has been out of the water less than 24 hours.  (In the case of our locally-caught rockfish, many are still alive and kicking when we bring them to our chefs.)  However, we do not have a warehouse thus we cannot guarantee to have all our products available 100% of the time. Chefs are notified by email (usually Friday) as to what seafood items are expected to be available each day of the following week.  We try to reach them by phone (on Saturday and Wednesday afternoons) or in person to get their orders for the week. OUR CUSTOMERS (click for their website) We serve chefs that care about the quality of their seafood.  Our products have been or are being served at more than 70 well known restaurants including many of the "Washingtonian's Top 100" such as: Marcel's    Galileo    Cashion's    Bourbon Steak     2941    Blue Duck Tavern     Nora    CityZen    Sou'Wester    Occidental    Willard    P.J. Clarke's    Hook    Cafe Milano    Ritz-Carlton - Fyve    Plume    Corduroy     Zaytinya     Proof     Poste   Cafe Atlantico    Equinox    701    D'Acqua    Zengo    Beck's    Johnny's Half Shell     TenPenh     Oval Room    Casa Nonna    Firefly     Urbana    Eola    Pesce    Kaz Sushi Bistro    Masa 14     Ris    Circle Bistro     Vermilion    Eventide    Tallula    Lyon Hall     Dino     Evening Star Cafe     Assaggi      Assaggi Osteria    Redwood    Il Pizzico    Black's    BlackSalt    Cesco     Monte Carlo    Comus Inn    Saint-Ex    Bar Pilar    Policy   Mendocino  L'Academie de Cuisine and in the following private clubs:  Chevy Chase Club    National Press Club   Members Club at Four Streams   Metropolitan Club    Retail Sales At the request of many of our neighbors in Kensington and friends in the area, we are now also offering some of our products as retail sales.  For more information, see our Retail Sales page.  If you want to receive notices of upcoming offerings each week, call to give us your email address.

ADDITIONAL PAGES

Mission Statement

Our Suppliers

Health Benefits of our Wild Products

Why Buy From Us? - 10 Good Reasons

King and Coho Salmon

Sockeye Salmon

Halibut

Sablefish (Blackcod)

Striped Bass or "Rockfish"

Wreckfish

Retail Sales

What Seafood Should Not be Served?

"Farm-Raised" Salmon  =  "Farmed and Dangerous"

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