Burhop's Seafood
Burhop's Seafood is a privately owned seafood retailer and one-time wholesaler and full-service restaurant founded in 1926 by Albert E. Burhop in Chicago, Illinois. The company is best known for having partnered with Clarence Birdseye in the 1920s to transport refrigerated seafood into the Midwestern United States for the first time. As a result of this partnership, Burhop's became the largest supplier of seafood to fine restaurants, hotels, and private clubs in Chicago for much of the twentieth century. Per the Chicago Tribune, by 1988 Burhop's was the largest group of retail seafood stores in the United States. In recommending Burhop's to readers in the 2007 edition of its travel guide The Food Lover's Guide to Chicago, Chicago Magazine called the distributor "a famous name in the Chicago area for 81 years." The company's seafood is regularly recommended by the Chicago Tribune and other local media. History At various points in its history Burhop's has been operated as a seafood wholesaler, retailer, and a full-service restaurant, maintaining multiple locations in downtown Chicago (at both North State Street and LaSalle Street) and in five towns in the Chicago metropolitan area (including Glenview, Hinsdale, and Wilmette). As of 2016, retail storefronts are