We have this awesome butchers in Hampstead, it's where we got our insanely large goose for Christmas. They do a lot more than just meat though, if you are picturing sterile white tiles, plastic strips hanging in the doorways, and ridiculously cold with a funny smell, then you are completely off about our butchers. It's more of a deli come wine shop come organic grocer come butcher and looks to be an old house conversion. No plastic strips in sight!
As well as selling a lot of food they also do butchery classes, which I would love to do, and tasting evenings. The other week we went along to one of their tasting nights. You all sit together on a long table and they serve you 4 courses and 4 different wines. They also give you about a 10 minute intro to each wine you are drinking as you go along, so I learned something as well as feasted. Then once you are suitably boozed up they open the shop again at the end of the night, with a little discount for you.
Now you wouldn't normally associate a butcher with fine dining, but another thing this place does is catering. If you are planning on having a dinner party and want to impress the guests, this is Hampstead after all, you get their caterers in to cook and plate everything up and then you can pretend you cooked it all. And that's literally how this butcher sells it to you.
We got to meet some Hampstead locals as well, which is a bit funny, Hampstead very much has a Mosman feel to it, at least the locals have that feel. So some other people at the table knew my CEO and apparently hung out on his yacht together. Only in Hampstead really.
The food was good and so was the wine, I learned a little bit more about European wines. I was surprised that there weren't any food bloggers there. I mean if that was Sydney I would be sure that at least one person would pull out their DSLR and start taking snaps of each course. But perhaps food blogging hasn't yet hit these shores.
If you want to check the butcher out for yourself here's the link.
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