WIDN – Victor Churchill, Sydney

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Even the butcher’s shop has gone high design, with stunning results at this family-run business in a Sydney suburb, where even the humble ‘snag’ gets a high-end makeover.

We don’t often see butchers’ shops in these pages, and the spread of supermarket has led to them becoming pretty scarce on our high streets too.

But in Australia, as in the UK, a new breed of butcher’s shop is stepping up to the challenge, offering a quality of service and design that you won’t find in the bland isles of your local Tesco or Asda.

‘Fine family butcher Victor Churchill’ may have an old-fashioned ring to it – and the first Churchill’s butcher’s shop in the Woollahra suburb of Sydney was established in 1876 – but a radical redesign by Dreamtime Australia Design has turned this traditional stalwart into that rarest of things – a designer butcher’s.

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