After more than four esteemed years in its space on N. Howard Street in Remington, butchery, bar and restaurant Parts & Labor plans to close up shop this week.
Its final dinner service will be Sunday, Aug. 5, according to a story announcing the closure in Baltimore magazine. Managing partner Corey Polyoka and co-owner Spike Gjerde, the award-winning chef behind Parts & Labor, Woodberry Kitchen and several other eateries centered heavily around local sourcing, cited profitability challenges–namely getting Baltimore’s carnivores to pay more for meat butchered on-site, and being unable to sell their meat outside of their restaurants due to lack of USDA certification.
Gjerde told the magazine the closure has been “a long time coming,” and added, “We probably held on a lot longer than most people would have.”
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