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PHOTOS: New Canaan Butcher Shop Opens on Burtis Avenue

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The owner of the newest business to open downtown—New Canaan Butcher Shop at 12 Burtis Ave.—says he’s off to a very solid start, thanks to strong Easter sales and support from the community. Since opening his doors about two weeks ago, “it’s been going great” at the new butcher shop, according to Paul Paris. 

“People have been coming in, checking us out, seeing what we have,” he said. “We’ve been doing a lot of sandwiches. People are happy with our cooked roast beef, our cooked whole chickens that we make the chicken salad from, the Cobb salad. People like our sides.

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New Canaan Butcher Shop Set To Open Next Week on Burtis Avenue

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Paul Paris, a former St. Aloysius School student who graduated from Darien High School in 1996, got the idea of opening up his own butcher shop about one year ago. He’d worked for a time at a butcher shop in Darien, then helped the ownership company open another one in Old Greenwich, running it for them for the past several years. 

“I always wanted to do something like this, but for me it was always a few things, like the finances and the location,” Paris said. 

He added, “And last July, my wife and I decided we really wanted to take that next step.”

They did. Paris is on track to open the New Canaan Butcher Shop (here on Instagram) next week at 12 Burtis Ave. Located in the former Red Grape Wine & Spirits space with parking on Burtis or in the nearby Morse Court, the shop will offer prime meats, grass-fed meats, Wagyu, dry-aged, poultry, lamb, pork, a freezer with wild game such as elk, venison, buffalo and antelope, salads, prepared foods, cold cuts and sandwiches. 

“You name it,” Paris said.