Porter Road Butcher to Open New Shop on Charlotte Avenue

is expanding to West Nashville with a new location on Charlotte Avenue. A second shop, to be dubbed Porter Road Butcher West, will take over the former Mrs. Winner’s building at

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Opened in late 2011, the whole-animal butcher shop run by former chefs James Peisker and Chris Carter has exploded, tapping into a market for locally grown, non-industrial pork, beef, lamb and poultry. The East Nashville location on Gallatin Pike has been regularly selling out of product since this past summer.

“We opened up as a neighborhood shop and realize all of Nashville wants a neighborhood butcher shop,” Peisker says. “It’s gratifying because people have a passion for what we’ve been doing. By us growing, it shows Nashville is becoming a food city.”