The Butcher Shop and Grill on the edge of Nelson Mandela Square, a public courtyard and shopping centre in Sandton, is a favourite of tourists and locals alike.
Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.
It looked like a butcher shop, but the meat was animated the hanging meat was funny and whimsical.
Finally, a restaurant with seating space, a submarine sandwich joint and a butcher's shop completed the Barbar food armada.
My short walk home passes a small, rather dingy square, the graffiti-covered Piazza San Apollonia, where a disused butcher's shop, an ironmongers and a tiny comedy theatre are all that remain of the final act in this famous love affair.
Hotspots springing up to serve the new residents include coffee shop Nelson the Seagull, restaurants Wildebeest and Pidgin, and Save On Meats, an old butcher shop with a legendary neon sign that now houses a popular diner.
It is an artisanal butcher shop, with meat supplied by the West Village purveyor Pat LaFrieda.
However, Ray Richardson, a butcher, said the development would mean the end of his shop, which had been in Lowfield Road for more than a century.
"We might have a big Tesco shop to start with, but we have an account with the local butcher and Spar, " said Mr Sowerbutts.
Peter Jacks, a butcher for 30 years who owns a shop in Newtown's market street, said the supermarket would have a negative effect on the town centre.
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