This is a gem that is not easy to find and also has some incorrect hours of operations. I normally buy my milk and meat from the same place but was fortunate to be too early for the delivery at the dairy farm this past weekend. This caused me to not only ask but start searching for grass-fed, local-sourced meat nearby. Yelp listed Kessler as closed but I had an odd feeling that I should call. I did travel an hour from NJ to get here so might as well give it a shot...or beg. Someone answered and they were open for another hour! Rushed over to the store and found a very non-descript structure...but this is PA so what the heck.
After trying door number 3, and not listening to my wife who kept yelling "it's that door!", I came into a 50 square foot which is the...store. It had 2 massive freezer units and a whole-lotta meat that was sealed and frozen. This is not the cheapest but you can't buy this kind of meat in the grocery store or even butcher by me. 4 ribeyes, 3 packs of grain-fed ground beef (the grass-fed was leaner), one large turkey kielbasa-like sausage, whole bird and 2 thighs with legs attached clocking at $110 is not bad at all. Plus ribeyes were apparently $18/lb when I was there. I got two charming wooden nickels where the 10th one gets me a free ground meat I believe. Very cute for having spent over $600 on just beef (pounding chest).
Will definitely come back since I cooked up the ground beef and ribeye when I got home and they were amazing and tender. read more