butchers in Greater Portland?

[laurmb]

Anyone have a butcher shop they love in the Greater Portland area? I'm trying to break free of the grocery store meats but don't know where to go. Thanks!

[irwin]

SMAHA'S in South Portland is a butcher shop, will cut to your specs, and is very reasonable. Their products is wonderful, and I feel a little better then Pats Meat Market, which I am not sure cuts their own meat or not.

[laurmb]

SMAHA's - A place I used to drive by daily but it takes the internet to remind me. Thanks so much for jogging my memory. I'll stop in and give them a try.

[sciencediet]

You can buy meat directly from Wolfe's Neck Farm (and they sell their meat through Hannaford as well). There's also a halal butcher on St John that looks interesting (and I'm sure there's a source for kosher meat as well, I just don't know where it is).

[mjp81]

WNF beef is actaully Pineland Beef with the WNF logo on it. Pineland runs the cattle on the WNF property. I don't know if this has solved the past issues of WNF not properly labeling their packages and admitting to using cattle from mid-west slaughterhouses. With this, many restaurants years ago dropped WNF beef from their menus. With Pineland running the division hopefully its local cattle now.

[laurmb]

Makes sense there's a halal butcher in town; I should have thought of this myself. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

[mjp81]

Pats Meat market is a good choice. Fresh Approach I believe does some butchering as well but I've never purchased meats there before.