He installed an antique porcelain sink, a new pine floor, butcher-block counters and those glass-fronted cabinets from Ikea (to hold his red and white 1950's Paul McCobb dishes, found on eBay).
In Alameda, a working-class neighborhood of tiled buildings, government-erected hulks and ground-floor butcher shops, many apartments remain empty.
The restaurant lives up to its bistro designation with shiny wood floors, butcher paper over tablecloths and a friendly, neighborhood feeling.
As a kid, I recall awakening -- breathless, disoriented, in a cold sweat -- to the sight of my sister bleeding-out on my bedroom floor, a butcher knife jutting out from her armpit.
Were people dressing up as cows and filming themselves doing dirty protests on the floor of butchers' shops at the height of the 1990s BSE crisis?
The look is familiar: a long, narrow storefront with bare wood floors, white butcher paper over tablecloths, a service bar up front and butter-yellow walls punctuated with brightly colored, framed posters (Cinzano and others).
This bright and airy space, with unfinished wood floors and butcher-block tables, serves fresh, simply prepared seafood.
In the life drawing sessions we didn't have easels, so we sat on the floor directly on butcher paper and the model posed in the center.
The black men were sent to the butchering floor.
The entire three floors above the butcher shop, which was sealed off and remained open, were gutted.
At the time Mr. Badia, had been living in a small apartment on the second floor above the family butcher shop, which was started by his great-grandmother in 1933.
