Do you start to salivate at the first whiff of burgers on the grill? Just in time for ever-tempting Memorial Day backyard barbecues, here is a guide to local purveyors of gourmet meats around Westchester County.
The Butcher’s Fancy
961 McLean Ave, Yonkers; 914.237.8260
With good humor, Irish charm, and serious butchering “chops,” County Leitrim’s Oliver Charles and his wife, Liz Charles, have been providing Old Country delectables to Westchesterites for three-plus decades, specializing in Irish bacon and sausage, burgers, and all manner of steaks. Top sellouts include homemade pork, leek sausage, and burgers with Irish bacon and Irish cheddar, along with the Irish spiced burger, flavored with marinara, onion, and seasoning.
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Cole’s Market
2147 Albany Post Rd, Montrose; 914.737.7737
Spanning three generations and more than 100 years, this local bastion of fine meats and seafood is famous for its burgers and steaks and a standout for its 10 varieties of sausage made on premises and without preservatives. The mouthwatering flavors include broccoli and cheddar, sundried tomato and basil, and jalapeño chicken. Other specialties for the grill run the gamut from meat or seafood shish kebabs to marinated steaks.
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Crisfield’s Prime Meats
61 Purchase St, Rye; 914.967.0152
With a strong and proud emphasis on New York- and American-raised organic meats — which can be ground to order for some of the most outstanding burgers your barbecue will ever host — this old-school butcher offers an expansive array of Prime beef, pork including fall-off-the-bone baby back ribs, organic veal, lamb, and sausage, and top-quality chicken from organic producers like Bell & Evans and D’Artagnan.
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Fiamma Pork Store
107 Halstead Ave, Harrison; 914.630.1452
Italian for “flame,” Fiamma is led by Doug Tucci, a transplanted Bronx restaurateur who has been turning up the heat in Harrison for more than five years. The shop focuses on Prime beef, ribeye, porterhouse, Pennsylvania chicken and pork, and homemade classic Italian sausage that comes hot, sweet, or without fennel. Call ahead for weekend orders of cheese and parsley sausage rings. Pro tip: Add a little zing to your barbecue thing with a house-jarred rub of brown-sugar pork or espresso.
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North End Quality Meats
835 Post Rd, Scarsdale; 914.723.3363
John Grillo (yes, that’s his real name) opened the doors of this local institution some four decades ago and, now with co-owner Rory Dekidjiev, is still behind the counter offering top-of-the-line Prime steaks, organic Bell & Evans chicken, and homemade ground chicken patties with broccoli and garlic or peppers and onions. He also crafts sweet, hot, and cheese and parsley sausage onsite and from scratch.
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Village Prime Meats
475 Main St, Armonk; 914.273.5222
Those in the know flock here for fresh, unfrozen turkey for Thanksgiving, but career butcher John Rubio never fails to delight regulars and newcomers alike year-round with his broad selection of 100% USDA Prime beef, including filet mignon, shell steaks, prime rib, and burgers, as well as Bell & Evans chicken and house specials like marinated turkey London broil and dry-aged rack of lamb.
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