The Local Butcher Shop
Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 7pm
Saturday - Monday, 10am - 6pm
The Local Butcher Shop in Berkeley offers not just sustainably raised steaks and roasts and chops, but a full range of meat based products like stocks, sausages, patés, lards, eggs, and other locally sourced food products. You can rest assured that all animals are humanely pasture-raised from local family farms.
No exaggeration, the stable of farmers that supplies The Local Butcher love their animals and their vocations (Apple Tree Farm pictured above, Devil's Gulch Ranch below).
Other providers include Morris Ranch, McGruder Ranch, Mariposa Ranch (beef), Lone Willow Ranch, Lano Seco, Mendocino Organics (pork), Emigh Lamb, Macgruder Ranch (lamb), Rosotti Ranch (goat and veal), Primal Pasture, Riverdog Farm (chickens), Good Shepherd Ranch, Paine Farm (squab), Wolfe Ranch (quail), Sonoma County Liberty Ducks (ducks), Say Hay Farm, Tomales Bay Pastures, Kaki Farm and Farmer Joy (eggs) and Fra' mani salumi.
After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Co-founder Aaron Rochino clocked time at legendary establishments like Le Bernadin in New York, two Stephen Starr restaurants in Philadelphia, Oliveto in Oakland, and finally at Chez Panisse as a chef in 2007 (they are now a Chez Panisse purveyor). His co-founder wife Monica met him at Oliveto and with an economics degree from Brown in hand, provided the synergy needed to successfully open The Local Butcher Shop in 2011.
The Local Butcher buys whole animals instead of parts which means that they can provide custom cuts for their wholesale and retail customers. This also garners more loyalty from the farmers that supply them leading to a more reliable supply chain, creating a virtuous circle which includes customers and the ecosystem as well. Visit their storefront or order online through Mercato.
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