As two of the commenters have noted, the butchers is open and I'm inclined to agree with them on its brilliance. To start with it looks just fantastic, and although we have only had some Parma ham and sausages from there so far, both have been excellent. Also I've enjoyed rather too many of their tasting samples.
I hope it survives, it certainly seems to be doing most things right. It is expensive, but I think good quality meat is, we've become rather blinded to this fact over the years and preferred to pay little for only adequate quality meat. Of course this has meant much more can be consumed and is not a bad thing, but personally I think I might try eating less but better quality meat. Brooks will be great for that!
Anyway anyone else have a view? I saw a tweet criticising the service, which I found a little slow but in a nice butchers way.
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I bought some lamb chops and they were lovely. Yes it may be expensive but one must bear in mind that it is Organic too.
No surprise that it's more expensive, I'm glad and a little reassured ! If a crappy cheap butchers opened that would have annoyed me. It's one area I don't want the cheap option, the other advantage is you can buy as much as you need. Welcome addition in my opinion.
It's a great addition, but they need to sort out their prices. I have no problem paying high prices for good quality, but £8 for one pigeon is ridiculous, as is £30 for a duck (both advertised in the window in the past week). Their sausages are fabulous though, as was the lamb breast stuffed with sausage meat we had last week.
I was surprised at just how expensive considering the meat IS NOT organic !!! Also badly labelled.
Ask the butchers there if their meat is organic. They will say yes, but in a sort of "freedom food...assured...look at Devon Rose website" way. So is it organic? Answer: NO! Avoid until they stop lying.
This is a very good news for all of us..
Unfortunately I don't think anyone there knows that much about meat.....did they really think we'd be conned by the trad name and uniforms? Why not staff it with some real butchers? - I think it would survive.
That's good to know - I was very excited to hear about a "real" butchers in Kensal but everything I have heard about it say's they are jumping on the new trendiness of Kensal.
I will try it but they need to beware that we are not mugs over here for it to last!
They need to check out Mackens in Turnham Green Chiswick for a great neighbourhood butchers that has queues down the street regularly!
It has a lot going for it in terms of looks, but I agree it is expensive. Our Turkey was UBER expensive and quite disappointing-not much taste and a bit dry.
The last few times I went in, I wasn't too impressed with the service, it felt disorganised and I didn't get that customer focus so I walked out.
It's interesting what some of you say about it NOT being Organic. If thier meat ISN'T Organic then they need to make that clear in the shop BEFORE we buy-not that I've been in since I walked out.
I bought a whole piece of belly pork it was expensive compared to the supermarket but the taste was far better and the crackling came up beautifully , the best meat we've had in a long time . I will be going there again.
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