Who Do You Think Is The Best Butcher?

Manta


Joined: 02/07/2010
Posts: 82

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:01

Hi all. I would like to know who you think is the best butchers and also the best place to buy all types of meat. (Beef, Chicken etc)



Are the chickens you buy here from supermarkets battery chickens, free range or organic? Where do they come from?



Do they hang the meat here and is there any where to buy other meats like rabbit?



Any idea on prices?



hope you can help



Thanks in advance

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:45

ty the shankill butchers. shankill road belfast...... no surrender

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:47

Racoonchic Free meat down 'The Glen Road' you are it if you don't drive quick enough.



Message1



Seriously though I buy all my meat from the butcher across from the 'golden lady' statue in Alsancak always good.



Chris

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:51

Bell foods are doing fresh, free range, organic capons for 8TL a kilo. Average bird about 3kg. Delicious!

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:52

seriously .......we find kibet in karakum always consistant for tenderness and good quality.... but they say if you beat your meat it will taste better...x

girne


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 438

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 12:59

Defo for meat Kibet it is always fresh and for chicken the chicken shop opposite called Kirni fresh free range eggs

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 13:10

Message 2 & 3,



Extremely bad taste.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 13:23

Message 7



Apologies you are correct very bad taste!



Chris

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 13:56

The butcher in the same parade of shops as Aydin Eczane (Hatice's) in Alsancak.

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 14:02

Never had a problem on Shankhill Road but Falls Road and Creggan something else ! The Pork Shop opposite Starlings in Alsancak is now very popular again. It seems they have returned to their original recipe for Sausages and Pork Steaks and Chops in all sizes at very competitive prices. Also sells excellent beef from time to time but necessary to visit regularly as it sells very quickly.

Cyprioth


Joined: 12/01/2011
Posts: 13

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 14:14

A Tempo's Market in Karaoğlanoğlu is best ı think ,fresh and good but not cheap

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 14:27

The Pork Shop (Pun?) has become expensive compared to prices a year or so ago.

I recollect chops were 14TL/kilo then and now they are 18TL.

Compared to beef and "lamb" that's cheap, but I still think the price rises are just "squeezing until the pips squeak", at which point the maximum selling price has been ascertained.

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 14:48

I have to say the meat from the Kibet shop in karakum (opposite Lemar) is very good indeed and I think cheaper than the supermarkets.

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 15:14

I have not had any bad meat from Kibet shop but did find their T-bone steaks a little tough, but that could have been down to my cooking of them!

rollinbones


Joined: 14/11/2008
Posts: 201

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 15:52

Had a great slice of Rump Steak from the Pork Shop.......... Really tender...... Will defo go back and get some more...

Panchocat


Joined: 29/11/2009
Posts: 1333

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 17:26

Kibet in Karakum definitely.

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 18:14

I am happy to agree with Vaughan - message 9. The meat from this butcher is brilliant and he always hangs his meat for a good length of time (21 days minimum from recollection). Certainly a couple of times he has refused to sell me a particular cut (probably ribeye steak because that is my favourite) and said to come back on such and such a day because it needs more hanging. He is a very very good butcher - and he will cut meat to the thickness you require unlike many others.



As to Tempo (message 11), I used to buy meat there until one day I saw him with a can of food colouring spraying the mince to make it look redder and fresher. Never again.

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 18:31

Msg.9 I bought a couple of nice LOOKING! steaks from him a few weeks back and they were as tough as the soles of my shoes! Never go back again. By the way have you ever seen the meat being delivered to this or any other shop? The guy who takes it out of the truck wears a bloodstained shirt that has never seen a wash. Even in SA they wore pvc smocks to carry in the carcasses. The butcher in the same complex as Turkbank in Alsancak is quite good in my opinion.

suzi1951


Joined: 14/02/2010
Posts: 191

Message Posted:
18/01/2011 21:02

had great meat from the butcher in the square in Karsiyaka

mrperfect


Joined: 18/01/2010
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
19/01/2011 08:26

Has to be the guy by Aydin Chemist for me, havent tried his beef yet but the Lamb from there is excellent, fresh, tender, trimmed to your liking and well priced. He deserves to do well, so lets support him.

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
19/01/2011 08:48

The problem here there is no consistency-one day a bullock next day an old milk cow.



Difficult to give a good recommendation I have had good and bad from all.



It seems pay your money take your chance.



What I will say I see a lot of TC's at the meat counters in the South-wonder why?

flowerfairy


Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 1277

Message Posted:
19/01/2011 16:21

I had a lovely joint of Pork from the Pork Shop, I ordered for a lean leg joint. It looked and tasted lovely.

His Pork pies are very nice too. Very different from the ones we're used to, totally different texture, but eat lovely , and none of that awful jelly stuff in it.

Bertie


Joined: 15/04/2008
Posts: 155

Message Posted:
19/01/2011 16:42

Pork shop - meat always hung, chickens free range and good size and very good pork fillet always tender.

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
19/01/2011 17:02

For those that enjoy their food at the Fast Food cafe/restaurant in Alsancak be aware that they have their own butchers which is located just up the road and for me they supply probably the best meat around.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
20/01/2011 07:54

The butcher by the Bellapais traffic lights on the back road behind Pia Bella Kirmiz.......... something not the cheapest but consistenly good quality meat.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
20/01/2011 11:11

Good to read so many positive comments about Mr Porky's. We always buy pork products from him to freeze and take back to Oman when we visit....Roll on April! Also love to barbecue his monster chops when we are there. I've heard his free range/organic chickens are delicious but never tried one yet...never been any in stock when we call in!



Re prices...they've gone up everywhere else so I suppose his will too, especially during the off tourist season!



What about the butcher near Mr Pound shop in Girne? It's always been recommended by one or two friends of ours but we've never sampled his meat...what's the general opinion?

tiara


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 111

Message Posted:
20/01/2011 19:11

For meat the best butcher is çakır just before Sele restaurant