By Lydia Kacala
Mister Brisket at 2156 S. Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, after being founded in 1974 by Sanford Herskovitz.
Herskovitz, owner Hank Kornblut’s stepfather, started the business after his mother gave him the wholesale accounts from his father’s grocery business, Kornblut tells Jstyle.
After he received the wholesale accounts, Herskovitz started going to downtown Cleveland when the meat packing district was in full swing, Kornblut says. There, he would visit butcher shops and slaughterhouses, and ask questions to learn about the industry.
While the future of the shop hasn’t been fully laid out, Kornblut says he hopes the Mister Brisket name will live on and still be around after the next 50 years.