Where to find a goose in the bay area?

[foodfanUSA]

Looking to prepare a eastern european meal and the centerpiece will be a roast goose. Any suggestions or hints would be welcome. I know its traditionally only sold around holiday times but I have seen the odd one here or there this summer.

[Robert Lauriston]

I noticed frozen geese at Berkeley Bowl yesterday.

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Berkeley Bowl
2020 Oregon St, Berkeley, CA 94703

[Kosmonaut]

Safeway has frozen goose in the freezer cases around the holidays only.
I sometimes see them at Golden Gate Meats in the Ferry Building, and the Bristol Farms at the Westfield Center.

Guerra's says they have them on their site: http://guerrameats.com/products2.aspx...
Drewes Bros. also has them but you have to call 1 day in advance.

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Golden Gate Meat
Ferry Slip, San Francisco, CA 94111

Bristol Farms
845 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Ferry Building
One Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111

[Sharuf]

You'll find lots of geese hanging out at the Marin County Civic Center lagoon. :-)

[skwid]

I suspect that you will be able to get Goose in Chinatown in either Oakland or San Francisco. I do know that Polarica will definitely have Goose.

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Polarica
105 Quint St, San Francisco, CA

[Melanie Wong]

Polarica did not have any geese available when I called two weeks ago, but expected to have them for the holidays.

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Polarica
105 Quint St, San Francisco, CA

[celeryroot]

about 2 years ago I got at Polarica and it was frozen and rather "ribby". There used to be a farm outside of Sebastopol that had them fresh every year , I cant remember the name as it has been at least 5 years,

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Polarica
105 Quint St, San Francisco, CA

[rworange]

Raley's / Nob Hill has been carrying frozen goose.

[Melanie Wong]

In case anyone is looking for a goose for the holidays, this was a great tip. It saved me last month when I'd planned a wine dinner for 14 people around Julia Child's braised goose stuffed with sausage and chestnuts, then I couldn't find a goose!

I would have preferred fresh, but the frozen goose that I bought from Nob Hill in Alameda was pristine, and it had all it's giblets. Price was higher than I expected costing me nearly $70 for a 9+ lb. bird.
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I talked to the meat guy in the store and he said that he gets a shipment of frozen geese once a year and once they're gone, that's it. At that time, there were about 6 in the case with weights between 9 and 10 lbs. I was in the Petaluma Raley's recently and noticed that it had several frozen geese, bigger ones around 12 lbs.

Lucky for me I didn't buy a bigger one. Once I defrosted it, I tried to fit it in my covered roasting pan. If I cross the legs and cinched them up tightly with a firm trussing, I could close the lid. Whew!

The recipe came out fantastic and that size bird was just right with many other dishes for that size of dinner party. I made some very rich stock with the carcass. The little bits of meat went into a bowl of goose rillettes and I had some very good gravy leftover. The 9+ lb bird rendered nearly a quart of goose fast.

[rworange]

Glad that worked out. I was glancing at the Raley's frozen geese last week. The San Pablo store had quite a few in the freezer. The goose I looked at was $57 though I'm not sure the weight because it made me go 'wow'.

[Melanie Wong]

Oh yeah, the checker did a major double take ringing up my purchase! The price as about $2 per pound more than I'm used to paying. I wonder if the Chinese butchers will have geese again after the holidays, maybe they only can get them in off season.

[Melanie Wong]

Cheung Hing on Clement St had fresh geese in the case when I was there in May. Many Chinese butchers in SF and Oakland have fresh geese available.

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Cheung Hing
323 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118

[SteveG]

Cheung Hing still had geese recently, maybe in July when I stopped in to check them out. I think it's a year around thing for them.

[Melanie Wong]

I called Cheung Hing today to see about picking a goose and was told "no goose, no more".

[OldTimer]

You might check Sonoma Poultry...they have some pretty big ducks.
http://www.libertyducks.com/price.html

[Robert Lauriston]

You can order goose from pretty much any full-service butcher. Polarica sells wild goose.

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