Growing up in Queens, New York, Liwei Liao fished—a lot. For the last 35 years of his life, he has devoted countless hours to recreational fishing. He is also a foodie and likes to eat, prepare and cook fish.
“When you catch a lot of fish, you have to deal with it,” he shared. “It was always a running family joke, like, ‘Hey Liwei, you catch so much fish, you should open a fish market.’”
Liao moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA and study engineering. Over the years, he developed a whole process to bring fish from the water to the table.
“If I opened an upscale fish market, I wanted to be on Ventura Boulevard,” he shared. “That got me looking for a couple of years, and I found a location in 2015.”
Joint Seafood’s Sherman Oaks location finally opened in 2018. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 