Meat & Greet
IN A YEAR when consumers shifted to support more local businesses, Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions, the city’s only whole-animal butcher shop, outgrew its confines. Pre-pandemic, Chris and Abbie Bolyard thought the restaurant across the street (the former Dubliner at 2733 Sutton) was too large for a Bolyard’s expansion, but there was inside dining, a coveted component that helped seal the couple’s decision to move this summer.
When my mom worked at American Roadhouse in St. Charles—a burgers, fries, and classic cars place that played ’50s and ’60s music—she got me a job as a busboy, and I had a blast. When I found out there were places to learn the business professionally, I enrolled in the CIA [Culinary Institute of America] out of high
