South Avenue Butcher Opens in New Canaan

New Canaan, Connecticut is excited to welcome an old fashioned butcher shop to its already impressive culinary offering. South Avenue Butcher is the creation of businessmen, long-term friends and Darien residents Dermot Flynn, Alan Griffin and James Farrell. The friends grew up in southern Ireland where rural towns would have a butcher shop and locals would go in for special cuts of meat and advice. The concept, which was inspired by a nostalgic chat at the bar, is a direct nod to their farming heritage and reinforces that consumers care about their meat source. They strongly advocate the community and have plans to support local town events.

The proper old-style butcher specializes in home-made sausages and burgers - they will even make some to a specific family recipe. Heading up the operation is Head Butcher, Michiel Hutten who hails from the Netherlands. He worked at Darien Butcher Shop, and has over 30-years of butchery experience. Inside the store he will serve prime cuts and order in specific meats. The meats are sourced from animals that are free to roam and will be organic wherever possible.

Butcher, Michiel Hutten says "Our beef will be coming from the Midwest and we carry carry mostly prime meat. The grass fed beef is coming from upper state NY. The lamb is from Colorado and our chicken is from Pennsylvania. We will be working with some local farms in the near future."

South Avenue Butcher will be open Monday-Friday, 11am-7pm and early during the weekends Saturday 8am-7pm and Sunday 8am-4pm. Call in and pick up your breakfast and brunch sausages.

For further information, interviews and images please contact Rachel Lampen on 203 970 8432.

South Avenue Butcher, 17 South Ave. New Canaan, CT 06840 / 203 594 1844  / info@southavebutcher.com / www.southavebutcher.com