Brookline’s new butcher: Grape Leaves
Well, “Grape Leaves – Gourmet Glatt” to be complete. The Naggars took inspiration from all the submissions and came up with a name they felt best fit their store’s offerings – Grape Leaves being related to wine, meat (dolmades), and cheese (accompaniment to wine).
Read all the details and see some photos over at Brookline’s newest source for online news, Brookline Patch.
Thank you to all the participants and voters. We will be in touch with all participants about prizes.
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‘Grape Leaves’ sounds chic!
YAY!! kola kavod!
I am happy for you guys, wishing you LOTS of success and nachas from this store and your families too! : )
Nice name. It strikes a good balance. Here’s hoping for some of the nice new kosher cheeses (e.g. 5-Spokes Creamery, and Sugar River Cheese Company), which are lovely and difficult to get around here! Anywhere we can make suggestions for such things?
wait till you guys see the logo, omg!
love suggestions.
we have a lot of work a head of us. web site and blog to come. if not on this blog you can get me on brooklinebutcher@gmail.com
Grape Leaves opened for business this morning, and I was their first customer. The shelves are still pretty sparse, but I assume they will fill out in the next couple of weeks as more stock comes in. The meat was fresh and it looked very good quality. The prices were reasonable ($7.99/lb for stew beef, $10.49/lb for flatiron steak, $11.99 for Jeunesse wine). Extra points for having the right cuts of beef available — center-cut ribeye, rolled ribveye cap, and flatiron are 3 of the best, yet hardest-to-find kosher cuts. They also had beef shoulder, which is a nice lean cut. The only complaint I could make is that the ribeye was cut a bit on the thin side (it looked like about 3/4 – 1 inch instead of a more ideal 1-1.5 inches).