Forgotten Block

Forgotten Block is a butcher shop and specialty meat market on Brevard Avenue in Historic Cocoa Village, describing itself as focused on premium meats, house made charcuterie, and expertly crafted products. Its own listing details a range of techniques the shop uses, including brining, curing, dry aging, smoking, and grilling, to produce fresh cuts and ready to cook items for customers rather than simply selling standard supermarket style packaged meat.

That combination of traditional butchery and charcuterie production places Forgotten Block in a different category than most of its Cocoa Village neighbors, which lean toward sit down restaurants, bars, and cafes. A dedicated butcher shop with a dry aging and curing program is a more specialized retail concept, closer in spirit to a European style meat market than a typical American grocery counter, and it gives Cocoa Village visitors and residents an option for provisioning a meal at home rather than only eating out.

The shop sits at 204 Brevard Avenue, on the same street as several other food and drink businesses in the district, including George and Dragon English Tavern and Ossorio Bakery and Cafe further down the block. Brevard Avenue functions as one of the two or three central spines of Historic Cocoa Village, running parallel to the Indian River and lined with a mix of restaurants, bars, and specialty shops housed in the districts historic storefronts.

Forgotten Block maintains its own website and a direct email contact, thebutcher@forgottenblock.com, both indicators of an active, independently run business. As with several newer additions to the Cocoa Village retail and dining scene, detailed public information on hours was not available at the time this listing was researched, so anyone planning to stop in for a specific cut or a charcuterie order should check the shops current hours directly or call ahead at 321-339-9089.

Historic Cocoa Village has worked over the past several decades, through a mix of Cocoa Redevelopment Agency funding, city investment, and private capital, to keep its historic downtown occupied by small, independently owned businesses rather than losing storefronts to vacancy or national chains. Forgotten Block fits squarely into that pattern, offering a specialized, craft focused product in a walkable district that also hosts more than fifty special events a year and sees regular visits from cruise passengers and Brevard County residents alike. For anyone assembling a meal around locally sourced, carefully prepared meat and charcuterie, Forgotten Block is one of the more distinctive stops on Brevard Avenue, standing apart from the surrounding restaurants as a market rather than a dining room.