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March 2023 by Ross O
Rotten meat. Avoid this place
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November 2022 by Mary Katherine G.
Okay, you first walk in and you see weird stuff like goat and sheep's heads. You smell the meat. The atmosphere is a little grimy, since it is parked right next door to Haymarket. The smell of funky cheese from a few doors down does not help. By far, this place does not look like much of anything.But first impressions are deceiving. This place is a hidden gem. The shop is over a hundred years old and it is a true, old school butcher. For the uninitiated, that means you are not going to find ground beef neatly packaged in styrofoam, but rather an "everything but the oink/moo/cluck/gobble/baa" mentality; they even will sell you a whole goat or sheep to roast on a spit. My advice is to stick around. I myself rave about this place because I got the perfect sized turkey for Thanksgiving, fresh kill, freshly butchered. It was succulent and excellent quality! Even if they don't have what you want in stock, they can get it to you within a few days, and again, they butcher EVERY MEAT OR FOWL KNOWN TO MAN. (You do have to verbally ask for some of their items, since the fridge is in the back as is where the butchering is done: they bring it to you.) They cater to both immigrant and local tastes, something Savenor's does not, and it is worth it-the Vietnamese guy gets his tripe to make pho, you get your prized rib roast, and the Puerto Rican walks out happily carrying a whole suckling pig she has carefully wrapped up to take home for Christmas dinner. Go on, give it a chance. Do what I did and go in advance for the holiday meal. Have your turkey or goose safely waiting for you and eat like a king while idiots fight over a frozen Butterball or a crown roast of meh from Shaw's. Poke at the goat meat, and then learn it tastes like lamb and actually would be a treat if used in a stew recipe. Go look up an old recipe of Julia Child's from the 1950's and realize that the foot of a cow was the old way to get gelatin and if all the instant stuff at the supermarket suddenly goes poof, you are going to be fine: the 100+ year old butcher shop that is older than Savenor's still has the foot, weird though that is.
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July 2022 by michelaine mondesir
Love to buy my meat there
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November 2021 by Hubert H.
Got some really fresh chicken wings here. Prices are probably comparable to the supermarket, but they did taste really fresh. None of the meat is on display!! You have to ask for it, and then they'll bring it out.
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April 2021 by Edisson Argueta
Good price and good meat, The goat meat is terrific really good place to buy meat from totally recommend 100% ??????
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February 2021 by Rafael Sampaio dos santos
Bought a bag of chicken thighs on there that said it was good for 6 more days. Day two was rotten already.
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January 2021 by Emile Stlot
Nice place to get your ? and good on priceThe owner of the place is a good good guy him and his father my he R.I.P they been here sent for every I will only get my ? from them
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June 2019 by Tolu Fadiya
If I could give ZERO stars I would. If I had seen these reviews before I stepped it to this store, I would have saved my money.
