We have a neighborhood butcher shop that we go to religiously. It’s not in our neighborhood, but we make the trip out of our way to buy all of our meat there.

This shop doesn’t have a huge selection of cuts of meat - if I have one complaint, that would be it. But the cuts of meat it does have simply can not be beat. It’s almost impossible to buy meat in a grocery store after going to a place like this

We don’t really shop like most people, I suspect. Particularly in the summer, when our CSA program is going strong, our shopping habits don’t typically include a grocery store unless really necessary. We get all of our produce direct from the farm, we get all of our meat from our butcher shop, we get much of our other supplies from a local Italian deli, and we often visit a German deli/specialty store for our fix on German specialty items.

I know that we’re spoiled, and if any of these places ever go out of business, we’re in trouble!