Butchers near Trenton/Princeton, NJ?
I've occasionally gone to a butcher out in Hightstown who closed a few years back and reopened recently. It wasn't exactly convenient (and their hours guaranteed I could almost never get there), but it was worth it for the quality.
Sadly, they are closed again.
Does anyone in the Trenton/Princeton area have any recommendations? I don't have any special requirements, nor are my needs that crazy - just random cuts of beef/pork that my local supermarkets never have available. (As a side note, the H-mart in Levittown, PA has a good selection of this stuff, but quantity is often an issue - if I need a 4 lb piece of pork belly, I'd end up getting multiple 1/2 lb pieces.)
Thanks.
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4 Comments:
There is a Wegmans there. 240 Nassau Park Blvd Princeton.
Wegmans has beautiful meat.
When I was younger and there was no Wegmans I used to go to Bensalem Wholesale Meats
2802 Street Rd Bensalem
They have great prices on everything. They also have damn near everything known to man in meat.
I also recall another place in Croydon right over the bridge on 13. Cannot recall the name. Was always packed, good prices on lunch meat too.
Meat Stop has a few locations in South Jersey.
JerzeeTomato at 10:20AM on 01/07/09
Things may have changed, but the ShopRite on the Pennington Circle used to have a great butcher. Call and see if you can special order, if the location is convenient for you. .
PerkyMac at 10:26AM on 01/07/09
theres a wholefoods on route 1 a little below the alexander road entrance into princeton (basically between nassau park store complex and marketfare)...they have a pretty extensive meat department
korovka at 5:43PM on 01/07/09
I just thought I'd post an update to this:
I checked with both my local Shoprite and the Pennington Shoprite, and while both -could- order something like pork belly, they have to order by the case... and unless I could take a significant portion (or all) of said case, they wouldn't do it.
Wegmans was even less helpful, and would not special order it under any circumstances. Their basic selection leaves a lot to be desired in any case. What's there is good, but there's a lot missing.
Whole Foods never could give me an answer (but considering their prices on everything else at their meat counter, I wasn't holding out hope it'd be worth the cost).
I did however find something interesting: Ely Pork Products (elyporkproducts.com) in Newtown, PA. They said with a week's notice, they could get me pretty much any cut I wanted (though they're backed up right now with deer processing - so they aren't doing the slaughtering themselves). At least over the phone, they were very friendly, and more than happy to keep a few pounds of pork belly out of the bacon cure.
Hopefully I'll finish up the other stuff I have going on soon and will be able to swing by there and give them a shot.
stratusgd at 12:02PM on 02/02/09