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    John Bain & Son

    4.0 (15 reviews)
    PriceyMeat Shops
    Closed 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

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    1 year ago

    Best meat pies ever! Recommended by a whisky tour guide on Edinburgh, and was worth the trip!

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    2 years ago

    Beautiful staff best pies bridies cooked meats fabulous strawberry tarts are delicious highly recommended

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    3 years ago

    Best pies and sausages ever, go regularly from fife to Edinburgh as no one can compare

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    15 years ago

    The best meat pies in Edinburgh...but get them early as they sellout quickly each day!

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    15 years ago

    best pies by a mile

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    Review Highlights - John Bain & Son

    I still travel from Livingston Village regularly to stock up on the mince pies.

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    Rodgers Butcher

    Rodgers Butcher

    5.0(5 reviews)
    40.3 miByres Road, Hillhead, West End

    I've just moved here and as an avid cook I wanted to befriend a good local butcher…read more Well, these guys didn't disappoint. From having a 5 min healthy discussion on preferences of wing-tip sirloin and ribs of beef I was given a sneeky peep round the back. These guys provide the beef for the best steak places in Glasgow. I'd eaten at one of them earlier in the week and my eyes were bulging at the trays of chateaubriands and rib in sirloins. So, as you'd expect, their meat is very well sourced and as good as you're going to get anywhere. I took a1kg 1rib Angus and pan roasted it in butter and wilted rosemary to get a good sear, then a quick 15 mins in the oven. I had it sat on some roasted beetroot puree with a port, wine and fresh beef stock reduction and the beef was some of the best I've ever eaten. Superb quality and ageing. Week after I wanted a lamb rump as I had the hunger for some dauphinoise. They were happy just to prep some up straight away, no fuss. The lamb was delicious........as was the dauph ;) ........and the sausages. Get the Italian fennel ones and slow cook cook them in your tomato sauce for pasta. Very, very impressive. Prices are as you'd expect for meat of this quality. Look on the window for weekly £10 deals. Steak and chicken. Well worth it.

    First to review? What is going on, Glasgow Yelpers?…read more This JOINT rests unassumingly on Byres Road and claims to be purveyors of fine meats. They are indeed. Walk by often enough, but was compelled to go in today noticing the £10 offer which includes 2 sirloin steaks, 2 pork loins, 4 steak lorne sausages and 4 pork sausages. And if that doesn't make you want to go as well, you're either a vegetarian, or just plain ole crazy (yes, those are different). Nice decor, welcoming, with a good layout and professional staff. Excellent selection of all sorts, including lamb burgers that are absolutely getting destroyed next visit. Delighted with my purchase today and will return. Enough said.

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    Mathiesons Craft Butchers - Mathieson

    Mathiesons Craft Butchers

    4.0(2 reviews)
    3.2 miMarchmont
    ££

    If it's meat you wants, it's meat they gots…read more PRICE: Very reasonable for a family butcher. SERVICE: Excellent. Cooking suggestions and ideal cuts are recommended on inquiry, and in a friendly manner. QUALITY: From taste, excellent. From looks, also terrific. CHOICE: Plenty of different cuts and meats, and a few pies as well. This butcher is excellent. I usually find myself buying meat from the supermarket on the logic that it is cheaper. Wrong. For better quality cuts I would find myself paying either a fraction more than in a supermarket, or indeed less. Coupled with the advantage of knowing where and when the meat has come from is a good mind-settler. Then, of course, there is the advantage of the advice that the butcher himself has to offer. This is one of the reasons that a butcher is always better than a generic meat counter in a Tescos. I ask which cut would be best for a grill with sautéed potatoes and stir-fry veg and I receive top-notch advice. I ask what would be the best way to cook a shoulder cut of beef and I am told in useful detail a few ways that would work best. Perfect. I agree that for those with a slight nervous disposition around raw meat would not find butchers an ideal way to buy (perhaps because it looks far too much like a real animal if it isn't sealed in plastic first) but I must insist that if buying meat, this is the best place to go.

    This is undoubtedly one of the most friendly butchers in Edinburgh. The staff here are always very…read morehelpful and able to help you find what you want. The prices are in line with what you would expect from a butchers so there's no surprises on that front. In addition the quality is what you would expect at the prices given. It's not a place to do cartwheels over, but it delivers value for money and sells good meat - what more do you really need?

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    D. Fraser McLeod - D.F. McLeod, Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

    D. Fraser McLeod

    4.3(3 reviews)
    2.5 miMarchmont
    ££

    I'm not sure if I'm in awe, or just a little disturbed by what I saw at this food store…read more I wouldn't quite call it a deli, although a lot of the food is quite fresh and especially "unique". Outside, there're fruits and vegetables, and anything else that's on sale at the moment. When I was there last, there were actual pots of curry (just the sauce ofcourse!) going for £1. Everything else out there looked pretty tempting, but it was quite a hot day so I'm a bit worried the food will have that sun baked taste, which sounds nicer than it tastes as I write it. Inside, however, was the BIGGEST surprise is inside the store on the shelves. They're ready made meals, in jars, including duck confit and most bizarrely wild boar. This may be normal to some of you, but I've never seen a wild boar let alone eaten one, so...I stared at it for a little while before I left.

    Excellent family run shop selling some fancy bits and bobs. Like the previous reviewer I cant quite…read morecall this a deli. They sell some really interesting foods you don't see around the area. The guys that run the shop are great - always chatty and friendly. My main draw for here is the lunch time rolls for a little over a pound. Considering the chain places and coops etc can charge almost three pounds for a disappointing dry sandwich, this is a bargain. Nothing fancy just white rolls salad and whatever tempts you. They have bargain bins outside the shop which are always worth a browse. If you are passing pop in for a browse and a chat, you wont be disappointed.

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