The great Aussie barbie is a Summer weekend favourite. Australian’s look forward to barbecues with their friends; the boys bond over taking charge of cooking the meat and the girls gossip over champagne whilst making salad. Now that the warmer weather is here, I’m hosting a BBQ for my friends this weekend. Even though it’s a casual barbie, it needs to be the talk of the town (or my friends). Great meat is they key to a great barbeque … so where can I buy my meat from? I want to have the best sausages, steak, ribs, pork, chicken, beef, lamb. If it’s amazing, I want to know about it! Where is Canberra’s best butcher?
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What’s Your opinion?
Best of Canberra – Butcher
– Cameron’s Meatways in Kambah
– Whatever that one up the back of the Dickson shops is (with the “miracle bacon”)
– I hear Lindbeck is good, but I’ve never been
– Probably others, but I’m based in the Woden/Tugg/Weston region, so don’t try much further.
I’m a big fan of Garran-teed Meats at Garran. Darryl smokes his own bacon and ham, the pork Cumberland sausages are delicious – every cut of meat I’ve purchased there keeps well and has a fantastic flavour
Most definitely Meatways at the Kambah Village. Cameron has won several awards for his snags – I think he’s been crowned the National Sausage King a couple of times. Meat is really high quality and the ham is deeeeelicious!
Wayne’s in Woden has great lamb.
chappo said :
It’s a challenge to find good hard fat these days with such lean commercial pigs.
I overcome it by buying whole saddles, making streaky bacon, ribs, braciole and using the loins for schnittys. Leaves the back fat for sausages and backbone for chinese soup and Xiao Long Bao. It’s pretty efficient financially.
Bonza Bangers at Hawker….is amazing.
chappo said :
I keep having visions of bogan chicks in leggings at the Tuggeranong Hyperdome food court …
Jordos Chop Shop, hands down.
Cameron at Meatways Kambah.
Bruce the Butcher, Tuggeranong Hyperdome. Same cuts as most other butchers, but MUCH better quality. And their Christmas Hams are awesome!
+1 Jordo’s Chop Shop
Lost River in Dickson is good. Reliable source for decent skirt steak, among other things. EcoMeats at the Belco Markets for organic and free range (or Griffith butcher if southside and looking for similar). Gino at EcoMeats will do custom cuts is asked nicely (double rib pork chop taken to a single bone, butterflied poultry and lamb for flat grilling, double thickness tbone or rib eye on the bone, bunnies broken down to mince with 30% pork belly for rabbit burgers, etc).
Recent butcher shop discovery (top notch little shop, lots of care & pride, plus good service) is the butcher at the Florey shops.
If you get to the Farmers Markets at EPIC, Boxgum Grazing is top notch for pastured pork. Good beef too.
Jordo’s Chop Shop online great service really nice guys
Lyneham best sausages, go pork fennel its a winner, and really good eye fillet cuts.
Basically there’s three that I like:
Griffith Butcher in Griffith
Lindbeck Butcher in Queanbeyan
Jordo’s Chop Shop in Wanniassa (or online)
The first two are very good quality but a little bit expensive and Jordo’s is great value for decent quality meat.
I make a lot of my own sausages but have trouble finding backfat. Anyone know where I can get some?