Seattle is losing its last Capitol Hill butcher

After 16 years inside Melrose Market, Rain Shadow Meats will shut its doors in December. Its owner says the relationships built across the counter won’t stay behind.

SEATTLE — The phone rings, and Russell Flint answers the same way he has for years: “Rain Shadow Meats.”

For more than a decade, that voice has been a constant inside Melrose Market on Capitol Hill — a place where customers don’t just buy dinner, but linger, ask questions, swap stories. A place where a butcher knows names, remembers weekends, and asks about job interviews.

By December, that will end.

Rain Shadow Meats — the

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