Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes and More Opens Flagship Fast Casual Restaurant

Astral Foods, a leader in the mail order sale of Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes through QVC and its own mailorder business, branches out with a flagship retail restauarant in affluent Hunt Valley, Md. Plans stores in select markets coast to coast.

Baltimore (PRWEB) October 10, 2005 -- Astral Foods, the parent company for Chesapeake Bay Brand and Chesapeake Bay Gourmet announces the grand opening of it's flagship retail outlet, "Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More," October 11,2005, in the newly renovated Hunt Valley Towne Center in Hunt Valley, MD. The 1,500 square ft. restaurant will specialize in prepared gourmet seafood specialties for lunch, dinner, and catering.

Celebrating it's 25th anniversary manufacturing gourmet Maryland style crab cakes and other seafood delicacies for their highly successful catalog and retail businesses, the company has embarked on this new venture to bring its products to "Main Street USA."

"We like the idea of having our restaurant on Main Street, a place where our customers can stop by and pick up our Gourmet Crab Cakes and a Hot Bowl of Soup in a quick service style setting," say Steve Cohen, CEO. Other regional favorites such as Crab Puffs, Shrimp Puffs, Seafood Dips, Crab Quesadillas, Soft Shell Crabs, and Lobster Pizzas will be highlighted on the menu. Even a Jumbo Lump Low Fat crab cake will be served for those on a diet.

"We will also take orders in the restaurant for items people wish to have shipped around the country and for Corporate Gifts,” says Cohen. In fact, the company won an award for the BEST CRAB CAKES YOU CAN GET BY MAIL by Baltimore Magazine. Cohen reports the company plans to open additional stores in select markets. Visit their website at cbgourmet.com.

The new open air “Main Street” setting in Hunt Valley Towne Center will include approximately 269,000 sq. ft. of new retail, service and entertainment tenants joining 475,000 sq. ft. of existing high-traffic tenants. Surrounded by one of the largest employment centers containing over 7 million sq. ft. of office space, approximately 50,000 daily workers and five hotels. More than 1 million people in a 15 mile radius boast an average household income of $140,000. Wegmans Food Market, the nation’s premier grocer, has chosen this site for its first Maryland location.

For more information call

Linda Eckhardt

Spotlight Foods P.R.

973 313 9705

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