Best butcher
Shortlisted entries
Andrew’s Quality Butchers, Hadleigh
A fixture in Hadleigh for 15 years, this is an artisan butchery, priding itself on high-grade quality products. Full knowledge of the provenance of the meat enables Andrew complete traceability back to individual farms, chosen because of the welfare, quality and flavour of the meats. A traditional butchery with a large staff, including apprenticeship training to ensure that this craft is kept alive in the modern world.
Andrew’s Quality Butchers, 74 High Street, Hadleigh IP7 5EF
01473 827720
Broxtead Butchery, Suffolk Food Hall, Ipswich
Last years winners, this is a traditional butchery with a progressive and innovative feel, situated within the Suffolk Food Hall, Wherstead near Ipswich. Everything sold in the butchery is locally farmed, the nearer the farm the better. All farmers are met personally and visited to ensure that the animals welfare is paramount. Sausages, bacon, butchers are all made on site, along with kebabs, meatballs and delicious fresh marinades and are currently expanding our ready-meal range which is on sale through the Food Hall.
Broxtead Butchery, Suffolk Food Hall, Wherstead, Ipswich IP9 2AB
01473 786610
G Debman, Family Butchers, Ipswich
A true traditional family butchers in East Ipswich, George prides himself on the fact that all meat is locally sourced, hung and prepared with care to ensure that the customer is able to purchase a quality product from Ipswich’s last remaining true butchers. As well as the more traditional cuts of meat, George and his team also prepare a wide range of BBQ products and Hog Roasts. Alongside the meats, George also sells fresh fruit, veg, freshly baked bread, chutneys, jams and marinades.
G Debman, Family Butchers, 101 Cliff Lane, Ipswich IP3 0PQ
01473 201686
Rolfes of Walsham, Walsham-le-Willows
2007 winners of this award, proprietor Paul Hubbard began his career in this traditional butchers shop at age thirteen as a Saturday lad, taking over the business in 2001. Totally committed to being a good butcher and purveyor of fine food, Paul has gone out of his way to ensure that the shop remains at the centre of village life.
Animals are sourced from local farms, enabling Paul to have full traceability and the peace of mind that the meat on sale is of the finest quality and that the animals welfare is of the up most importance. All processes performed at Rolfes are under gone by hand and to traditional methods such as curing and smoking of bacon, cooking of pork cheese, making sausages and pie making.
Rolfes of Walsham, High Street, Walsham-le-Willows, Bury St Edmunds IP31 3AA
01359 259225
Sotherton Farm Beef & Pies, Halesworth
Following several generations of family farming, Sotherton Farm Beef, Pork & Pies is an extension of an existing business offering five different flavour beef sausages, four different flavour pies, mine, stewing steak, fillet and sirloin alongside the pork from their sons pigs. All of the animals are reared here, and the meat is cut up on site and sold in the shop. A true family business in all senses of the word.
Sotherton Farm Beef & Pies, White House Farm, Sotherton, Halesworth IP19 8NW
01986 873123
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