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post #1 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:00pm
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I mentioned this in another thread but it got lost. It's worth mentioning again.

The beef at Fairway Market is tremendous. Pricewise, it compares very favorably to gourmet butchers in the NY area. I.e., about $20/pound for grass fed, dry-aged prime. Indeed, other than from Lobel's ($$$$) or a catalogue, I don't know where else to get beef that fits all three of those categories. Two is realitively easy to find but not the trifecta.

Very, very good stuff.
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post #2 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by Manton View Post
I mentioned this in another thread but it got lost. It's worth mentioning again.

The beef at Fairway Market is tremendous. Pricewise, it compares very favorably to gourmet butchers in the NY area. I.e., about $20/pound for grass fed, dry-aged prime. Indeed, other than from Lobel's ($$$$) or a catalogue, I don't know where else to get beef that fits all three of those categories. Two is realitively easy to find but not the trifecta.

Very, very good stuff.

Which ones do you recommend?
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post #3 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:07pm
(disclaimer, me no like grass fed)

Never been that impressed with Fairway beef. I am constantly pushing Florence Meat Market to anyone in the NYC area, prices and quality just cannot be beat but they do not have grass fed.


Not to thread derail, but I had some heirloom/berkshire pig ribs a week ago and much prefer the regular (corn fed?) ribs that I get.
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post #4 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:08pm
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Well, I am going by what I can get at the new W-chester store. I definitely prefer grass fed so maybe that is why I like it. There is a little butcher in my village who sells dry aged prime but not grass fed. Good, but I like Fairway better.

Catalogues like Lobel's (local for me) and Allen Brothers (Chicago) all have grass-fed, dry-aged prime.
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post #5 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:12pm
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As for Florence, I am interested to try it but the idea of going down to the Village for some steaks that I have to trek home to the 'burbs seems like a lot of work.
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post #6 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by edmorel View Post
(disclaimer, me no like grass fed)

Never been that impressed with Fairway beef. I am constantly pushing Florence Meat Market to anyone in the NYC area, prices and quality just cannot be beat but they do not have grass fed.


Not to thread derail, but I had some heirloom/berkshire pig ribs a week ago and much prefer the regular (corn fed?) ribs that I get.
I fucking love Berkshire pork.
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post #7 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:20pm
We don't eat much beef at home. For some reason, when shopping for food, we always prefer to get fish or shellfish, or some lamb or veal. Extremely rarely do we enthusiastically pick up a piece of beef. When my in-laws are here, we always buy some kurobuta.
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post #8 of 17
6/16/10 at 4:50pm
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I fucking love Berkshire pork.

Sig worthy.
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post #9 of 17
6/16/10 at 5:10pm
One of our friends had us over for a taste-off of lobels waygu vs. fairway dry-aged prime. Wasn't really an apples-to-apples comparison and I couldn't say which I liked more since they were so different. Anyhow, he's a guy that knows steak and loves the quality/price at fairway. He's toured the fairway meat locker and has been threatening to take me next time he goes (this it the one in the bronx). We have a fund raiser every year in our town and the loebel's smoke several briskets for the event. I don't think I've had better brisket anywhere and I've had an awful lot of smoked brisket. I've heard that there's a market in the bronx (maybe the bronx terminal market) where the public pays $20 and gets access to the same meat lugers buys. Lugers has lockers in the market where they age the beef. I've always wanted to check it out but I don't really know enough to walk into a a commercial market and know what I'm doing. We've had mixed results with stew leondards aged prime. If you like berkshire pork, try katsu-hama on 47th between 5th and 6th. You have to walk in past the take out section into the restaurant. They serve japanese pork katsu (fried pork cutlet) and it's delicious. Get them to help you with how to make the sauce...you grind your own sesame seeds as part of the tonkatsu.
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post #10 of 17
6/16/10 at 5:16pm
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Stew Leondard's is not bad. Fairway is better. Stew's is significantly cheaper, though, roughly $13/pound v. $20 as I recall.
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post #11 of 17
6/16/10 at 5:17pm
Yea Manton - you should try Katsu-hama !
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post #12 of 17
6/19/10 at 8:50am
knickerbocker on 9th and 20th-ish is worth a visit, too.

prices vary depending on your attitude, and on whether you leave them with unsellable ends and pieces or buy the whole lobe/rack/...thing.
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post #13 of 17
6/19/10 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by iammatt View Post
I fucking love Berkshire pork.

+1

One of my favorite proteins.
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post #14 of 17
6/19/10 at 1:00pm
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Yea Manton - you should try Katsu-hama !

I can throw in an endorsement for them. delicious.
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post #15 of 17
6/19/10 at 1:58pm
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+1

One of my favorite proteins.
I had been eating much of it, or noticing it much at all until you mentioned it awhile back in another thread. Now it is basically our staple meat. I find that I love every cut I've had.
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