THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
On April 21 at 5:30PM, join Pat Duncan (Duncan’s Trading Company), special guests Jon & Mandy Heflin (Chula Seafood), and Gregory Cohen (Quail Distributing), for our annual dinner event at Arcadia Farms Café.
The dinner will showcase locally-sourced fruits and vegetables from Duncan’s farm in Laveen, sustainably caught California coast fish from Chula Seafood, paired with course by course fine wines.
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While we work on finalizing menu details, we would like you to know that all proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen, providing food relief to Ukrainians. If you aren’t able to attend this dinner, please consider making a donation directly to World Central Kitchen.
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Dinner price is $125 per person (22% service fee and tax additional).
Seating for this dinner will be limited. Parties of 6 or less will be seated family-style.
John Heflin | Chula Seafood
Established in San Diego, CA by the Heflin Family in 2009, Chula Seafood is a family owned + operated fishery that purveys high quality, fresh fish from the Pacific Coast. The boat, CHULA, specializes in harpoon-caught & deep-set buoy Swordfish in addition to species off the California Coast. After years of commercial fishing, the family decided to take the plunge into wholesale distribution in California, delivering fresh, Chula caught fish.
FV Chula, a custom designed 68 Hoquiam harpoon boat, built in 2009 by Little Hoquiam Shipyard in Hoquiam, WA, is docked in Point Loma, CA and this is also where Chula Seafood Wholesale is located. Off-loading directly from our boat to local California restaurants and other distributors. Because of years of commercial fishing and close relationships with the local fisherman, we are able to supply the best of the best.
In August of 2015, the family recognized the need for fresh fish in the desert and began delivering straight from the boat to Arizona. This led to the opening of our first fish market and restaurant, located in South Scottsdale and another location in Phoenix that opened in 2018 in Phoenix. Chula Seafood is dedicated to purveying the highest quality product with matching customer service.
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Sustainable Fishing…FV CHULA has been using the harpoon technique to harvest Swordfish in Southern California since 2009. One of very few boats in Southern CA to be certified to fish using the Deep Set Buoy Gear technique, which is considered to be one of the most sustainable forms of fishing as lines are dropped below the turtle layer and fish are brought to the surface alive. The by-catch, if any, is opah and thresher shark.
