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Best Butcher/Meat Market in SFBay?
Just called ahead, making a run to Schaub's now, will report. Thanks!
I just got back from the MV Farmers Market; while it's interesting to be able to buy duck confit and merguez, I wasn't blown away with the meat selection (and it seems to sell out quickly).
Best Butcher/Meat Market in SFBay?
I'm stuck in Sunnyvale for a couple weeks on a gig, but my corporate apartment has a passable kitchen. I'm trying to take the opportunity to cook with local stuff. So my question is:
What are my best options for buying meat around here?
My acid tests for a great butcher/meat market would be local pork (if I could find pork belly, I'd be thrilled) and/or hanger steaks.
I searched the board and got the "usual suspects" in Santa Rosa and Healdsburg. I'd be happy to drive up there and make a day of it, but if there's something decent out here in the South Bay, I'd be happy with that too.
Absolute best burger in Chicago?
While $10 might be a good price for a burger with an interesting house mayo on brioche, am I the only person who has an viscerally negative reaction to claims of hamburgers "made from Kobe beef", or even just the idea of Kobe beef being driven through a meat grinder and fried up like chuck?
Meat Lover ISO Outrageous Chicago Meat Experience
I know this thread has legitimately mutated to a discussion of Brazillian, and far be it from me to detract from Brazillian. I'll put a good word in for both Fogo and Sal, though Fogo has better salad and sides.
But even the Vietnamese suggestion is more of a "Chicago Meat Experience" than churrascaria --- which I first had in Manhattan and will forever associate with NY, making it practically the antithesis of "Chicago food".
Here are three "meat experiences", ranked by preference (not Chicagoiness), which answer the OP's question more directly:
An Italian Beef and Sausage combo --- two distinctly Chicagoan meat delicacies wrapped around each other, like a hoofed turducken; the avatar of Chicago food, and a total meat overdose. I recommend Johnnie's. More here:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/326985
Because Chicago is not exactly known for authentic barbeque, the epic search for good smoked barbeque seems to be a local chowhound rite of passage. I recommend Honey 1:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/117338
Finally, there's something like 50 high-end steakhouses in Chicago; my only caveat is to keep your guard up and research the origins of your steakhouse choice, or you could wind up having a New York meat experience instead:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/359377
Of course, if your use of the word "outrageous" tends towards the literal, there's always that creepy guy who tried to sell tiger meat:
http://www.fws.gov/arsnew/regmap.cfm?arskey=11071
