Locals Seafood is celebrating the grand opening of its new East Raleigh seafood market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 18. The event will include hourly chef demonstrations on how to fillet a fish, how to shuck an oyster, how to clean a soft shell crab, and how to peel and devein shrimp. Customers also will receive a free “Locals Only” t-shirt with a $100 purchase.

Locals Seafood also will be offering a 10 percent discount on these seafood packages during the grand opening:
• Summertime Shrimp Boil (feeds 2-4 people): 2 pounds in-shell shrimp plus Andouille sausage, potatoes, corn, garlic herb compound butter, and lemons; $60
• Shrimp Steam Bags (feeds 2-3 people): 2 pounds in-shell shrimp with garlic herb compound butter, lemons, and cocktail sauce; $38
• Raw Oyster Kit (feeds 1-2 people): 2 dozen raw oysters plus mignonette, cocktail sauce, horseradish, lemons; $35
• Soft Shell Crab Kit (feeds 2 people): 2 soft shell crabs with tartar sauce, pickles, coleslaw, brioche buns, and one package Tidewater Seafood breader; $35
• Clam Boil Kit (feeds 2-4 people): 3 dozen clams plus lemons, compound butter, and cocktail sauce; $30
• Dry Aged Whole Fish (feeds 2-3 people): 2-pound dry-aged whole fish, trussed and stuffed with lemons, herbs, and butter, $40
• Seafood Grill Kit (feeds 2-4 people): 2 marinated fish skewers, 2 marinated shrimp skewers and 2 bacon-wrapped scallop skewers; $65
• Frozen Seafood Kit: two crab cakes, one pint each of she crab soup and fish chowder, one quart of seafood stock, 1 pound crab claw meat, 1 pound peeled and deveined shrimp, 1 pound scallops, four-count bacon-wrapped scallops, and a fillet sampler with three different fish; $185

The new East Raleigh market’s regular hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. The address is 1408 Corporation Parkway in Raleigh.