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| - I think this is a great local butcher. The quality and selection of meats far surpasses what you would find at a local grocery store. So far, we have tried to ground meat (beef and turkey), chicken legs, sausage, and bacon. Everything has been full of flavor and super easy to cook. The ground beef we made into this delicious meat sauce that barely needed any spices.
The butcher is in a decent sized shop and has all of your major cuts of meat. There is limited seafood as the bread and butter seems to be the pork/beef. There is a good selection of chicken and turkey products as well as some cornish game hens and some duck. The sausages are made in-house with a good variety - italian to maple/blueberry to breakfast to turkey. There is also a good selection of bacon, prosciutto, and other cured meats. Any other speciality meats or cuts should be order 48 hours in advance.
The only reason that I hesitate to give this place five stars is because the meat is purchased from larger Alberta distributors. It's hard to verify if the meat is free range/hormone free/etc because they purchase from multiple distributors. When I asked one of the employees where the meat was from, I also got a very curt answer. There didn't seem to be a willingness to go into detail about each specific cut and where it was from.
So the moral of my story is that if you are looking for good quality, delicious meat at a reasonable price then the Better Butcher is a far superior option to Safeway, Co-op, etc. If you want to know where all of your meat is coming from and how it lived/died then maybe you should try somewhere else. Or perhaps, you should go in the middle of the day, when they're not super busy and you have the ability to have a more extended conversation regarding the origin of the meat.
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