Welcome to Ivar's Soup Seafood and Sauces
Vintage Ivar's Poster
Washington State Ferries • 1994
Our First Wholesale Customer
When Ivar opened one of Seattle's first aquariums on Pier 3 (now Pier 54) on the Seattle waterfront, he offered his guests fish and chips and his homemade clam chowder. By 1946, he was selling so much seafood that he closed the aquarium, sold the sealife to Vancouver, British Columbia, and converted the aquarium to his Acres of Clams restaurant.
After hundreds of customers asked us if they could buy our famous chowders in stores, we finally understood that selling our products strictly through our own restaurants would never be sufficient to satisfy Ivar's growing customer base. So, in 1988 we began to sell our world famous tartar and cocktail sauces and followed soon after with our chowders. Our first customer was the Washington State Ferry System.
We no longer make our chowders and sauces in Ivar's kitchen at the Acres of Clams on Pier 54, but from a state of the art food processing plant two ferry stops north of Seattle in Mukilteo, Washington. In the local dialect, Muk-il-Tee-O means places of fine seafood soups and we take advantage of that aura to produce our soups, as well as TwoSpoon Soups, a selection of offerings that have no seafood in them. In our secret test kitchen we also develop custom soups and sauces for restaurant, grocery, and food service companies, and then produce them in our plant.
Ivar's is ready to create and commercialize your special recipes. Whether you commission us to build a new soup or sauce from scratch, or would like our team to commercialize your tried and true family recipe, Ivar's Seafood Soup and Sauce Company may have a solution for you.
Let us assist you in achieving both consistency and convenience: imagine your recipe being made the same way every day, no matter who is cooking it.
Click here to find out about our Custom Manufacturing program.