Chez Panisse Cook Opening Butcher Shop in North Berkeley

Berkeley is slated to get an artisan butcher shop later this year, one that’ll trot out a variety of sustainably raised whole beasts. The Local Butcher Shop hopes to launch in early September, in the old Red Hanger Kleaners at 1600 Shattuck, on the Cedar Street side of the complex, just behind Crepevine, and staring smack into the parking lot of Andronico’s. The proprietors: current Chez Panisse cook and Oliveto alum Aaron Rocchino and his wife, Monica, an account exec at Emeryville’s Paula LeDuc Fine Catering.