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Mexican butcher shop opens in Brookline
Dec 30, 2009
In October 2008, Jose, Gabriel, Luis and Pancho Berumen-Cruz came to visit a cousin in Beechview. The four brothers had a landscaping business in Indianapolis but it was not doing so well.
Their business was one of 300, all competing for clients who, increasingly, "decided they would cut their own lawns," said Gabriel's wife, Missy.
During their visit, they met their cousin's Mexican friends and drove around the city, inspired by what they didn't see. Where were the big-box Mexican groceries? Where did Mexicans shop for food around here? Weren't there any carnicerias? (Carniceria is Spanish for butcher shop.)
A year later, the brothers had rented a storefront in Brookline and last week, after three months of satisfying all the codes and regulations, they opened Las Palmas Carniceria, a new grocery and meat market, with Missy Berumen behind the counter.
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