“I have a lot of respect for an animal I'm putting my knife into...I have a use for everything.”

If Cousins can be patient, so can you, and it'll be worth the wait. When his butcher's shop opens you'll be able to buy meat cut to order. “Beef, pork, chicken, lamb, seasonal boar, housemade sausages, pâtés, terrines,” Cousins lists. Thick-cut bacon if you want it.

Charcuterie will be sliced to eat on the spot in sandwiches wrapped in brown butcher's paper, and served with homemade pickles, pickled cabbage, bright-yellow piccalilli (a Brit favourite), ... and others to augment the cornichons that Cousins put up last summer. All in a high-ceilinged space that feels as though you're suddenly back in turn-of-the-last century Gastown.”

ANGELA MURRILLS - GEORGIA STRAIGHT- MAY 3, 2007

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