SMALL BUSINESS PROFILE
By Jacqui Chaisson
Butcher & Butcher: Fine Island Meat is Charlottetown’s gourmet butcher shop. Offering traditional cuts of only Island raised beef, pork, chicken and lamb from local suppliers such as; Macquarrie’s Meats, Winsloe; Larsen Family Farms, Belfast; Larkin Brothers Inc., New Glasgow and Papia Papa, Crapaud. Butcher & Butcher also has many specialty products such as 50 varieties of sausage, deli meats and bacon. Butcher & Butcher is also the proud home of Jercules: Fine Beef Jerky. Chris van Ouwerkerk; owner, butcher and jerk guy, started working with meat at 14, cleaning up after meat cutters at a local grocery store in Stratford. van Ouwerkerk left the big box meat business behind at 19 and began touring Canada as a musician before completing a history degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Upon finishing his B.A., van Ouwerkerk started working at a small local meat market where he began to learn the fundamentals of whole animal butchery. After a brief stint in law school, Chris traveled to Vancouver to learn and work as a butcher. After six months of learning under a fully trained British butcher, a chef, and a beef jerky producer, Chris returned to the east coast determined to finish law school and put his newfound skills to work. He started laying the framework for Jercules: Fine Beef Jerky and Butcher & Butcher in August, 2014 and hasn’t taken a break since. He just finished law school in this May. Committed to selling the best of Island raised meat, Butcher & Butcher is open seven days a week and can be found at 25 St. Peters Road.
Butcher & Butcher: Fine Island Meat 25 St Peters Road, Charlottetown 902.367.6117 Jerculesfbj@gmail.com charlottetownbutcher.ca
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