Friday is the first nice grilling night of the season, and winter sucked so much that I want to ball out and christen things with some nice prime steak. I've noticed multiple butchers -- even though they have "prime" sounding names -- don't actually offer USDA-graded Prime ribeye.
Anybody purchase this in city limits? The exact cut isn't the end of the world, though I would prefer ribeye.
Posted Apr 11, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC
giunta's in reading terminal sold them last time i was there (both prime and not)
This. Also you can try Haldeman's (Haltemann's?) right around the corner from Giunta's -- farm fresh and amazingly delicious. Better than WF, in my opinion.
Whole Foods has the highest quality meat in the city that I know of. And they tend to supply meat from farmers that treat and feed their animals at least decently. The designation usda prime is just from regular factory farms but their best cuts. FWIW
Second Whole Foods, just bought some steaks for Friday, myself!
If memory serves me, Capucchios and Esposito's down in the Italian Market are supposed to have excellent meat.
Cappuchhios sucks. Esposito's is ok.
Costco.
Door to door salemen my dude ;)
Costco, seriously. Great quality meat and you can't beat the prices.
They sell steaks, or you can buy the full primal for a pretty serious discount and cut them down to steaks yourself.
edit - you can also pick up good quality meat at Jetro, but need a membership (and technically have to be a business, but you can fudge that pretty easily).