Win this Bodum Press; and Get the Scoop on the City’s Best Butcher Shop
6 comments so far | January 24, 2012 | By Emily Warren
Last week we began first of our series of weekly reader contests: We asked you to tell us about your favorite butcher shop, choosing one winner (he’s announced below) from comments on both Edible Brooklyn.com and Edible Manhattan.com to score one lovely little Fyrkat grill. This week’s contest winner will take home one of those pricey Bodum presses.
Here’s how to enter to win: Tell us about your favorite seafood shop in the comments below before midnight on Friday. Be sure to register with a real email address so we can contact you later if you win. We’ll pick a reader based on what we think is the best response. Extra points for those who lead us to best-ofs we haven’t already tracked down for our online listings.
Now back to last week’s contest winner: Your answers were amazing, calling out butcher shops and shopkeepers from both Brooklyn and Manhattan that both know their trade and choose their proteins wisely. (We encourage you to read about them both on Edible Brooklyn’s site and right here.) It was tough to pick a winner, but we chose Peter Durnin, a commenter on Edible Brooklyn’s site, because, well, he told us about a butcher shop that wasn’t even open yet. Impressive.
Durnin suggested Tiberio Custom Meats, a little shop currently run in the window of Sauce restaurant in the Lower East Side by former Dickson’s Farmstead Meats man Adam Tiberio. (Dickson’s is in Chelsea Market, and it was a top choice among commenters, who pointed us to plenty of spots around the city.) Tiberio, who is hoping to open a USDA-inspected cut-and-wrap meat processing facility in New York City to serve not just us but restaurants, Greenmarket farmers, and other meat companies–even ran a workshop this year at New Amsterdam Market on meat cutting and getting more sustainably raised meats onto city plates.
Writes Durnin: “Tiberio Custom Meats. Adam Tiberio knows his trade. Has collaborated with Frank Prisinzano at Sauce Restaurant. Head butcher at Dickson’s Farmstand. Creator of the Tiberio Steak. And, from what I have read, is planning to open a storefront in Brooklyn. Would make sure to keep an eye out for more news of this venture.”
Thanks to you, Peter, we will be sure to!
Categories: Super Markets & Shops
Desnuda in the East Village. This small winebar serves up seafood in the form of ceviche and tea-smoked oysters. Not only is the food always fresh and delicious, their selection of wine complements nicely as well. A great place to bring a date!
My suggestion and strong recommendation for a superb, oh-so-good, indulge in the best oysters –plenty to choose from and with daily specials– is KANOYAMA, a Japanese restaurant in the East Village. I’ll never go somewhere else in Manhattan oyster wise.
The best fresh seafood in Astoria is Astoria seafood shop on 33rd St. and 37th Ave. and you can kill two birds with one stone in multiple ways: While you’re picking up your fish to cook for dinner, you can sit and enjoy lunch. They will clean and debone anything you buy and the prices are so reasonable. Or if you are going to eat, choose what you want and they’ll prepare it right there.
My go-to fish store is Fish Tales Gourmet Seafood Market in Cobble Hill, Bklyn. They have a great selection and a knowledgeable, friendly staff who are always ready to offer up suggestions on how to prepare the fresh seafood. Plus they’re open on Sundays now which is a great help!
Wild Edibles in Grand Central Station. Fish brought in fresh 5 days a week. Best quality in the city
Chelsea Market Seafood – one of the best in the city
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