Since moving from Los Angeles to southern Charlotte, North Carolina, we'd been looking for places that sell minimally processed food, such as natural foods and organic foods. While searching the web, we discovered What's Your Beef, a butcher shop/deli that sells only natural meats of all kinds. They moved up to Charlotte's Ballantyne area from Waxhaw, which is just south of Charlotte.
Owned and operated by Victor Giroux and John Saari, What's Your Beef is a real live butcher that caters to a wide range of meats cut to order, selling only natural meats, which is a very wise and safe way to eat. According to their website:
All our beef products have NO hormones, NO steroids, and NO antibiotics which makes the beef much more healthy to eat. Also, our beef has an 18-21 day dry-aging process that makes it exceptionally tender and flavorful. Enjoy one taste of our USDA 100% all natural beef, and you'll understand why our beef is the #1 choice for healthy families in North Carolina!
Their website has similar statements about their chickens, lamb, pork and veal. We do understand that much (or all?) of the meats are from local farmers. While they don't claim that any of it is certified organic (except, we believe, the buffalo meat), some years of looking into organics (and talking to an organic farmer or two) have given us to understand that obtaining an organic certification can be a lengthy and cost-prohibitive procedure for small farmers. Therefore, it's important to "know your farmer", as they say.
We first visited What's Your Beef while they were still located in Waxhaw, N.C., and we bought all kinds of meats, such as chicken, beef steak, beef chuck (ground beef), pork chops, sausage and meat balls. We found them all to be delicious as well as nutritious.
Coming from the west coast, we noticed that the quality of the chickens is superior to the ones we had been buying in Los Angeles. We found this true with the other meats too. Don't ask me why; it could have been our imagination. All we know is that the meals were more satisfying, especially the chickens! The taste was so satisfying and that was not our imagination!
What's Your Beef Butchers
What's Your Beef is now located at 14021 Conlan Circle in Charlotte, N.C. 27288. Their phone number is 704 843-5244 (or 704 843-3640). You can email Vic at: vic@whatsyourbeefbutcher.com. And they have a website at: whatsyourbeefbutcher.com.
They are a couple of amiable guys who are quite helpful and friendly and they deserve our business, since they also have our good health in mind. Great meats! Great taste!
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Robert
Comment posted on 01/24/10 @ 4:09 pm
Do you ever work with grass-fed beef? Is so, do you cut, age or process it any differently?
Diane Vigil
Comment posted on 01/24/10 @ 8:17 pm
Hi Robert. Actually, we are not butchers ourselves. Our article was about a butcher we'd found in Charlotte.
That said, we have tried grass-fed beef in the past, but don't know much about the aging process there.