Brownsville Butcher & Pantry in Vermont may be the home of the former Brownsville General Store, but the new owners plan to switch out general store staples for local food when it opens in fall 2018, reports Valley News. The business aims to serve reasonably priced breakfast and lunch plates, and, eventually dinners, and to stock groceries, all with a local bent.
Co-owner Peter Varkonyi is a trained butcher and plans to produce cuts of meat from whole animals delivered and stored in the store's newly constructed, 4,000-pound-capacity cooler. Some cuts of meat will be processed in the restaurant's own smoker, Varkonyi says. Lauren Stevens, who spent the past two years as the farm manager at Norwich's Sweetland Farm, will oversee the store's hiring, training and licensing, as well as customer service.
When the Brownsville General Store closed early in 2017, it was still being run as a traditional small-town market, but the 2010 closing of Ascutney Mountain Resort made it harder for the store, which was founded in 1970, to keep operating as it was. A group of about 40 full-time and seasonal residents calling itself The Friends of the Brownsville Store banded together to buy the property, paying $100,000 for it in May, selecting the Butcher & Pantry plan from about 20 proposals, according to the report. Full Story
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