Scoop: Meat-Lovers’ Alert! The Good Butcher Is Coming This Fall
If you're grateful for what the Cheese Shop brought to the Des Moines cheese scene, you'll love what this visionary butcher is doing for the meat scene.
Lucky Sherman Hill! (Well, lucky Des Moines, really!) This autumn, we’re getting one of the most promising food-retail operations to open in Des Moines’s core since the Cheese Shop came to town. Calvin Schnucker, who’s worked as a butcher since he was in college at the University of Iowa, is opening “The Good Butcher”—a shop that will butcher whole animals that have been humanely and sustainably raised, including locally sourced non-GMO and grass-finished options. It will be located in the historic Crescent Chevrolet building, next door to HomeGrown Kitchen.
Oh, and Terry Boston (former long-time chef at The Des Moines Golf and Country Club) is involved as well. Read on!
I sat down last week to get the lowdown from Schnucker. Here’s where he’s been—and where he’s going.