Trey Nichols, one of the owners of the Heart and Trotter Butchery. (Credit: Heart and Trotter Butchery) Civic San Diego Loan Program Supports Jobs and Boosts Revenue at Local Butchery The Heart and Trotter Butchery on El Cajon Boulevard was one of the beneficiaries of an Accion San Diego loan that came out of a $400,000 lending capital fund operated by Civic San Diego. The North Park butcher shop received a $35,000 loan from Accion, a nonprofit microlender, enabling the small business to keep five jobs and to purchase equipment for its kitchen. The Civic San Diego Loan Fund is supporting small businesses in communities that have a median household income of $60,000 or below. Trey Nichols, left, and James Holtslag, owners of The Heart and Trotter Butchery (Credit: Heart and Trotter Butchery) Voted San Diego City Beat’s Best Butcher Shop the last three years, the Heart and Trotter is a whole animal butchery offering the highest quality, hormone and antibiotic free meats and … [Read more...] about Daily Business Report-June 1, 2018, San Diego Metro Magazine
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TASTE TEST: Dream of the ’90s alive in Tomato Bar’s Porklandia. Le Peep in Valpo offers brunch for the whole family.
TASTE TEST: Dream of the '90s alive in Tomato Bar's Porklandia Remember when people were eating pizza? Vegan pizza, gluten-free pizza? Pizza with a spicy alfredo base, a pesto base, an oil and garlic base? Pizza topped with portobello mushrooms, hardwood-smoked bacon, artichoke hearts and goat cheese?There's a place where that idea still exists as a reality. And I've been there.The tomato sauce never runs dry at Tomato Bar, a modern pizzeria with locations at 79 U.S. 41 in Schererville and 2310 Laporte Ave. in Valparaiso.Cory and Blair Muro, the duo that's also behind Ricochet Tacos and The Market in Valparaiso, run the gourmet pizzeria where chefs toss spinning discs of dough in an open kitchen that features a custom-made 3,000 BTU rotating oven, a Homer Simpson Pez dispenser and a Stormtrooper standing sentinel next to a can of ingredients.Tomato Bar specializes in "outside-the-box" pizzas like The Buff, which includes a Buffalo sauce base, … [Read more...] about TASTE TEST: Dream of the ’90s alive in Tomato Bar’s Porklandia. Le Peep in Valpo offers brunch for the whole family.
TASTE TEST: Grab some heat with Mexico Lindo’s huevos rancheros
TASTE TEST: Grab some heat with Mexico Lindo's huevos rancheros PORTAGE — Mexico Lindo Mexican Restaurant Bar & Grill is unassuming from the outside but provides a bright and enjoyable atmosphere within.Decorative vines surround the walls and dividers and uplifting tunes carry down from the speakers. A pleasant mural adorns the eastern wall and a colorful bar area also proves inviting.Mexico Lindo, 5908 U.S. 6, offers many staples, including taco, burrito and fajita dinners and platters. However, the establishment is sure to appeal to those looking for some spice and fiery flavor in their meals.One selection, the Pollo a la Diabla, advertises it comes with a signature spicy sauce along with rice and beans. One server said it will take a "Mexican macho" to stomach it.If you're looking for something a little lighter, but still something with a slight zest, consider the huevos rancheros option off the breakfast side of the menu.This dish is served up with two eggs over easy … [Read more...] about TASTE TEST: Grab some heat with Mexico Lindo’s huevos rancheros
TASTE TEST: Try Fiddlehead’s ‘The Hipster’ sandwich before it’s cool
TASTE TEST: Try Fiddlehead's 'The Hipster' sandwich before it's cool Fiddlehead, a newish restaurant that opened three years ago in downtown Michigan City, serves up locally sourced comfort food such as grass-fed burgers raised nearby at the farm-to-table butchery Sims Meat Processing in LaPorte.It's a chic space with an array of craft beers at 422 Franklin St., but it's more than just another eatery with a bar and late-night weekend dance parties. Fiddlehead also serves as a training hub for returning veterans that offers individualized job training and yearlong apprenticeships for local vets.Fiddlehead's menu includes thoughtfully prepared fare like a beet and goat cheese salad, a lobster roll and a grass-fed filet.Whether you listen to vinyl, sip pour-over coffee and plan to attend the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this summer or not, you might want to get into "The Hipster" sandwich before it's cool.You've probably never heard of the $12 sandwich, which comes with kettle … [Read more...] about TASTE TEST: Try Fiddlehead’s ‘The Hipster’ sandwich before it’s cool
Pete’s Fruits & Vegetables Keeps Going…and Growing…for Forty Years
All this is why, nearly forty years into its tenure at the corner of Cedar Avenue and Holly Street, and long after chain grocery stores supplanted neighborhood markets across the city, Pete’s continues to be a mainstay for regulars, while also attracting new customers who soon become regulars. “Put the honey, you get the bees,” Pete says, with a wink. “They come back.” Pete’s Greek specialties supplement local produce. Laura Shunk Pete didn’t set out to become a grocer. He came to the United States from southern Greece’s Peloponnese region in 1971 (or 1972; he’s a little fuzzy on the dates — “but it’s just a year, does it matter?”) with no money, no job and no English. “I started as a tailor and made $25 a week,” he recalls. “After a month, I gave up.” A cousin who owned a restaurant and bar on East Colfax introduced Pete to a carpet-layer, who gave him a job. He’d work all … [Read more...] about Pete’s Fruits & Vegetables Keeps Going…and Growing…for Forty Years
Parts & Labor butchery passes the vegetarian test
In my tenure as a writer for Your Weekend, I have often sought out places that most Hopkins students probably haven’t heard of. To me, the point of this section is to get folks acquainted with this wild and wonderful City and to (hopefully) generate some hype about local businesses and events. This week, however, I would instead like to use my corner of The News-Letter to issue a public apology: Parts & Labor, I’m sorry. I was wrong. Parts & Labor is a restaurant at the edge of the gentrified part of Remington that you’ve probably already heard of. It heralds itself as a responsibly sourced, whole animal butchery that also serves food and beer. It’s apparently a less weird combination than I thought. Being in Remington means it’s within walking distance. From the south corner of campus, head down N. Howard Street; it’s right before 26th Street, and it shares a parking lot with Single Carrot Theatre. I’ll admit, I’ve spent the last … [Read more...] about Parts & Labor butchery passes the vegetarian test
I Love Church Hill
× Expand Sarah King enjoys a stroll through her Church Hill neighborhood. When I caught wind last spring that my ex would be getting out of federal prison soon, I knew it was time to move! Throughout my five-year tenure in Richmond, I had lived in a smattering of the city’s neighborhoods: Jackson Ward, downtown, briefly Oregon Hill and Carver, and finally, a quiet studio in the Museum District. Each move had signified a different pit stop during the course of a tumultuous three years, but as I unpacked with Hunter (my fiancé who is not — and never has been — inside a federal prison) on a stifling day in early August, we both knew Church Hill was a place we could finally call “home.” HISTORY Church Hill is anchored by the St. John’s Church District (the site of Patrick Henry’s 1775 “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech), which was designated the first of … [Read more...] about I Love Church Hill
How a changing population and tastes are killing German restaurants
When you think of the quintessential German restaurant in the United States, you're thinking of a place like Karl Ratzsch. Ever since it was founded by German immigrants in 1904, it had a menu full of schnitzel, spaetzle and other hearty Bavarian staples. The interior was dark wood, with German coats of arms, hand-painted beer steins, a beautiful Bavarian cuckoo clock and servers in dirndls. The place was a Milwaukee institution: Frank Lloyd Wright, Liberace and President Richard Nixon dined there. Karl Ratzsch's was handed down through generations and reached such acclaim that in 1980, members of the Ratzsch family were invited to a state dinner with President Jimmy Carter and the chancellor of West Germany, Helmut Schmidt.It didn't last. In 1993, Karl Ratzsch III was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with a suicide note left among the mounting bills. The restaurant stopped serving lunch for a period in 1995 because of dwindling customers. In 2003, the family sold it to … [Read more...] about How a changing population and tastes are killing German restaurants
‘Grandma’s food’: How changing tastes are killing German restaurants
When you think of the quintessential German restaurant in the United States, you're thinking of a place like Karl Ratzsch. Ever since it was founded by German immigrants in 1904, it had a menu full of schnitzel, spaetzle and other hearty Bavarian staples. The interior was dark wood, with German coats of arms, hand-painted beer steins, a beautiful Bavarian cuckoo clock and servers in dirndls.The place was a Milwaukee institution: Frank Lloyd Wright, Liberace and President Richard Nixon dined there. Karl Ratzsch's was handed down through generations and reached such acclaim that in 1980, members of the Ratzsch family were invited to a state dinner with President Jimmy Carter and the chancellor of West Germany, Helmut Schmidt.It didn't last. In 1993, Karl Ratzsch III was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with a suicide note left among the mounting bills. The restaurant stopped serving lunch for a period in 1995 because of dwindling customers. In 2003, the family sold it to … [Read more...] about ‘Grandma’s food’: How changing tastes are killing German restaurants
San Francisco’s strange detour from paradise to parody
By John King and Heather Knight Updated 11:07 pm, Sunday, February 4, 2018 Story by John King and Heather KnightPhotos by Dorothy Edwards | Design and Development by Maegan Clawges September 18, 2015 San Franciscans have long worried that the future is bleak, that the “real” city is in danger of disappearing forever. But these days, it’s hard not to look around and wonder if the nostalgic cynics and apocalyptic doomsayers might finally be right. The San Francisco of 2015 is a city where the median house price tops $1 million. Where venture capitalists spent $6.1 billion on companies in the second quarter of this year. Where vending machines dispense juice that costs $10 and a bowl of chili in formerly working-class Bernal Heights costs $15. In a city where political activism is an art form — we often lead the way in cultural shifts, like the change in attitude on same-sex marriage — the focus is on crafting apps that help people hire … [Read more...] about San Francisco’s strange detour from paradise to parody