Good beef starts with decent cattle, that's why we're passionate about using traditional British breeds that are slower growing. As with all our meat we like to work closely with our local suppliers and our beef is no exception. We source some from our family farm in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds as well as from a friend of ours just up the road at North Cockerington. Both enjoy a predominantly grass fed diet resulting in a wonderful depth of flavour, good marbling and a close tender texture.
We use a small local abattoir, before dry ageing our carcasses in our own state of the art cold store. The temperature and humidity is carefully monitored, the air is circulated by special fans and ultraviolet purification keeps unwanted moulds and microbes at bay.
Proper dry aging is a specialist skill and requires a good eye to judge timings as no two carcass are the same, despite lots of mass production and supermarkets claiming that they 'dry age' or 'mature' they beef this is not the case.
Like most things that are worth doing right, it costs extra money and time, two things the supermarkets are not prepared to compromise on, so beware the fake dry aged meat out there.
Jim & Odile Sutcliffe
We're an award winning online only farm shop and deli. Based in the heart of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, we specialise in meat from our own and nearby farms as well as a large selection of deli items. We deliver nationwide via courier and have a local delivery service that we operate ourselves.
Being family run small business means that we put our heart and soul into ensuring that your receive the best quality and service.
Because it's just the two of us you can always be ensured of a personal service, we undertake every activity in the business ourselves whether that's responding to emails, making sausages or packing orders as well as everything else in between.
Our passion in life is food and our world revolves around it, so much so we were once described as the "fairy god parents of food". We appreciate every single order and prepare and pack it with love and look forward to being of service to you.