Food & Wine: The Best Butcher Shops and Meat Markets in America


 
It's an interesting list and I'm sure they're all quality outfits, but the author never really defines the selection processes nor does he say how many shops and markets were initially evaluated.

"In choosing this list of nearly 100 essential shops across the country, there was one very clear standard—the more sustainable, the more rebellious against the prevailing winds in a morally corrupt industry, the better. However, from the very start, we knew the list would need to be much more inclusive, which is why you will end up reading about more than a few of the classics, some of them a century old, or even more than that, doing incredible work in the sense that they pull people away from the worst of the commodity meats at the supermarket meat counter, and into a small, locally-owned business with some kind of standards. (In the pursuit of perfection, we must never make it the enemy of the good.) These shops have served their communities well for so long, when they could be doing something, anything else. We celebrate their commitment and perseverance."

It certainly reads and sounds like something one would find in a Food & Wine or Bon Appetit article, but it doesn't really lay out any discrete parameters. From what I can tell, the markets most likely to make the list were either the new "nose to tail" butchers or the places that've been open forever, and I have a hard time believing that there are only 100 good shops like these in the country.

At least Bunzel's in Milwaukee isn't too terribly far from me.
 
I clicked on the link - that is one LONG article to load!

I got a pop up asking me if I wanted to sign up for the news letter, clicked "no" and Chrome started to spawn a bunch of browser tabs. I had to shut Chrome down to stop it.

What shops in CA made the list (I'm not opening the link again)?
 
Here ya go, Erik...looks like Sepulveda might be closest to you.

A Cut Above, Santa Monica, CA
Electric City Butcher, Santa Ana, CA
Fatted Calf, Napa, CA
Guerra Quality Meats, San Francisco, CA
Huntington Meats, Los Angeles, CA
The Local Butcher Shop, Berkeley, CA
Luis’ Butcher Shop, Downey, CA
Olivier’s Butchery, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi’s Daughter, Los Angeles, CA
Sepulveda Meats & Provisions, San Diego, CA
Taylor’s Market, Sacramento, CA
 
Brad Olson said:
Here ya go, Erik...looks like Sepulveda might be closest to you.

A Cut Above, Santa Monica, CA
Electric City Butcher, Santa Ana, CA
Fatted Calf, Napa, CA
Guerra Quality Meats, San Francisco, CA
Huntington Meats, Los Angeles, CA
The Local Butcher Shop, Berkeley, CA
Luis’ Butcher Shop, Downey, CA
Olivier’s Butchery, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi’s Daughter, Los Angeles, CA
Sepulveda Meats & Provisions, San Diego, CA
Taylor’s Market, Sacramento, CA
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Thanks!

Never been to Sepulveda.

When I go 'high end' for meat, I go to Seisel's. But I'm willing to check this out.
 
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