The Butcherie
Opened: 1962
Owner: Walter Gellerman
Welcome to the only kosher supermarket in the greater Boston area! The Butcherie has been here since 1962. The original grocery store here appears to have been a Sunny Rose Foods, in business by 1946, then Sunnyside Foods by around 1955. There was also a funeral home at this address, but it looks like it coexisted with the supermarket rather than coming before or after it. And while I have no idea, this building seems to bear some similarities to early car dealerships such as the type you can see in a few other Massachusetts cities. The store clocks in at around 6000 square feet, but it's definitely a full supermarket and not just a corner store -- or, as the name might imply, just a butcher shop. There's also wine and beer.
The Butcherie's present layout has the entrance on the front wall and the exit door here on the corner near the registers.
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: none
Location: 428 Harvard St, Brookline, MA
Photographed: June 16, 2019
I didn't take pictures of the inside (why oh why did I walk by this store multiple times without going in?!) but the good news is, you can still tour the interior! The business actually has a full interactive tour posted to Google Maps. Check it out for yourself below. You can use the arrows to navigate around the store's interior.
And that's all for this store! We're six blocks or so north of Coolidge Corner, and tomorrow we're going to go south back towards Coolidge Corner to see the next store here in Brookline. Come back to check it out!
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