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| - Found this place on Yelp. Browsed the meat menu and was pretty excited! I went with Christmas dinner for the family in mind... Prime rib roast! I asked the woman at the counter (knowing the answer, but...) if all the meat on the menu was choice. She said, "no... prime." I was amazed! All this was prime! Sweet! The customer behind me said that it was not prime. I didn't hear him. The attendant let me know that, "He says it isn't prime." I decided to get a boneless ribeye steak and some top sirloin to decide if paying twice the price for my standing rib roast was worth it. Smith's was exactly half the price, as were Albertson's and Von's.
They cut me an amazing ribeye and two really nice pieces of top sirloin. We grilled them up, and I was sold! That ribeye was the best steak I have had outside of a restaurant. The sirloin was good as well. Nothing to freak out about, but good. They both had more flavor than the normal supermarket cuts we normally get. I went back for my 'prime' rib. USDA ratings be damned... that meat was good!
Ordered my roast... 6-7 pounds and 2 pounds of bacon because the man who told me that the meat was not prime, said the bacon was amazing! I did not specify where on the primal my cut was to come from, but even at Smith's it comes from the small end... my fault, I should have been more specific. I believed the premium price meant I would automatically get the small end. I got it home and saw that it was the opposite end. I believe it was larger than 6 pounds though. I went with it. I dry aged it for 3 days.
I used Tyler Florence's recipe for horseradish crusted rib roast, as I have in the past on supermarket roasts. The roast was flavorful, but it was tough. I was not impressed, but this may be how roasts at the larger end of ribeye are (tough at 130 degrees).
All 4 roasts I have prepared from Smith's and Von's have greatly outshined this roast.
The worst part... a customer came in for their order that included duck. The counter said that they had not received the ducks yet. They would arrive later in the day. After the customer left, they got 4 frozen ducks and "put them in water" per instruction of the woman at the counter. I believe this customer ordered fresh birds. Why else would they not fill her order at that time?
I have no doubt that if you are a regular customer, you will get outstanding cuts of choice beef, pork and at times fresh poultry. If you aren't a regular, watch your ass. Supermarkets deliver consistent, as promised mediocrity at half the price.
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