FOH Carnivore Exchange

[El Presidente]

Gents,

We have a global membership here and one thing that many of us love, beyond cigars, is a deep appreciation for quality meat.

From local butchers to high-end online suppliers, there are deals, specials and opportunities that pop up every day across different regions that many of us never get visibility on.

This thread is designed to become a running, global “wire” for exactly that. If you come across a quality meat special, a standout supplier, a seasonal offering, or something simply too good not to share, post it here with a link and a short description. Include your location where possible so members can quickly gauge relevance.

The aim is simple. Help each other source better product, at better value, wherever we are in the world.

No noise, no clutter. Just good meat, good intel, and a community that knows how to put both to proper use.

Enjoy and contribute as you see them. 

[Lant63]

Not my business, but if you are USA based Wagyu Window is ran by a cigar guy.  Great service and great product.  

https://thewagyuwindow.com/?absrc=Google&abid=611853325161&abcampid=17828936789&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7IjOBhDyARIsAFzrWQy_JyEPxvu_TCJIH42VteENOCD1FGrb0B31sFAnfoQ36YIoNm46IocaAgzmEALw_wcB&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17828936789&gbraid=0AAAAAowbBbdzr8eGZeGJyVzy7SvzZbKpi&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7IjOBhDyARIsAFzrWQy_JyEPxvu_TCJIH42VteENOCD1FGrb0B31sFAnfoQ36YIoNm46IocaAgzmEALw_wcB

[riderpride]

Two ranches immediately come to mind in Southern Alberta:

- Six 9 has premium-grade hybrid wagyu/Angus, and is run by a family that rides at the same stables as my daughter. https://www.six9ranch.com/

- Grazed Right is angus, and is a smaller operation that targets Sept-Dec for butchering. I've seen more variability with marbling here, but it's still a great product and family. https://grazedright.com/

The hanging weights are different at 500lbs vs 350lbs, so that closes the price gap for a side pretty quickly. 

Cheers!

[MoeFOH]

For us Aussies, when it's available, Double Aged Dairy Beef cuts here 👉 https://wolkifarm.com.au/

Still believe dairy breeds are the best, most flavoursome steaks. A bit tougher, of course... but that rich yellow fat, grass fed all its life. Hard to beat in my books. 

[E-Sheriff]

https://lightningcattleco.com

Local American wagyu located in central PA. Been friends with these guys for years. Great products, great service, and a great group of guys. Smoke a lot of cigars with them too. 

[Nevrknow]

https://porterroad.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoq5JwakYXIaEkhOw-ZNMomeVhxqHFZxUvcV2rFL_1YQClzQ3stl

Porter Road butcher shop in Nashville, TN. This link shows the original store plus the local retail they serve. Found them years ago as I have family there so travel to Nashville often.

Never been disappointed with anything from there and the last brisket I got surpassed the gold grade I usually get from 

https://snakeriverfarms.com/

Another great supplier.

For my Florida locals ( and they ship )

https://www-prod.wildforkfoods.com/

This is my go to for "dino ribs". My beef of choice lately. I prefer their black Angus over the prime. Prime just seems to rich for me to eat them the way I gorge myself when I cook them. 😂

[painfreefishing]

https://www.facebook.com/sagrerabeef/

Family-owned cattle farm located in Ethel Louisiana, This is their Facebook page. Absolutely amazing beef. He has an ultrasound on the farm so he can judge the marbling before slaughter. I have never had an average cut of meat from Shawn. 

[JDoughty]

https://snakeriverfarms.com is my choice for American Wagyu at a decent price point. It's not A5 but it's quite good. I source my everyday meat from the wild or from local farms, I do my own processing and help other local farmers and hunters with their processing and taxidermy prep as well. But if I'm cooking wild game for an event open to the public that requires USDA certification, I source from Broken Arrow. https://brokenarrowranch.com/  

[loose_axle]

8 hours ago, MoeFOH said:

For us Aussies, when it's available, Double Aged Dairy Beef cuts here 👉 https://wolkifarm.com.au/

Still believe dairy breeds are the best, most flavoursome steaks. A bit tougher, of course... but that rich yellow fat, grass fed all its life. Hard to beat in my books. 

Bloody hell, thanks matey, I didn't know a website like this existed! 

[MrBirdman]

I’m very lucky to live near an old fashioned, 3rd generation family owned butcher shop. All the beef is USDA Prime, heritage breed pork, pasture raised chicken, house made sausage, the works. Everything cut to order. I love supporting a local family over the online guys or certainly Whole Foods - good luck getting something cut to order there. The last time I went to a WF meat department, I asked to buy some bones and they said they were “out.” Of bones. At a butcher. They also refused point blank to go in the back to check, telling me to “look in the prepackaged meat section” (i.e. “f—k off.”)

It was fortuitous though: that experience spurred me to find the shop I now go to. It’s further away and more expensive, but the quality, selection and service more than compensate. As an added bonus, they are down the street from a small organic co-op where I can buy most of my other groceries. The cashier is a short woman with blue hair and a mustache, but she’s friendly and doesn’t exude resentment at having to work for space-billionaire.

I’m not really a big fan of Wagyu or Kobe beef anymore, except as an appetizer (like foie gras). Too one dimensional and rich for a main course. First bite is heaven but it quickly saturates the palate with fat. I prefer a nice prime, dry aged steak or even well roasted pork loin over Wagyu as an entree. 

[joeypots]

My home town gourmet butcher 

https://alpinebutcher.com/

I had a beef shank from this outfit a while ago that was fantastic.

[chasy]

I like Seven Sons

https://sevensons.net

[LizardGizmo]

I’m a big fan of elk meat and buy all of my stuff from Fossil Farms - a locally owned farm raised and exotic meat provider. They’re close to where I live, but they’re a pretty big business now and ship all over the US. Their Elk Tenderloin is fantastic. I also get my Heritage Thanksgiving bird there every year. They also offer a discount for first responders, military and health care folks.

FossilFarms.com

[JDoughty]

17 hours ago, MoeFOH said:

For us Aussies, when it's available, Double Aged Dairy Beef cuts here 👉 https://wolkifarm.com.au/

Still believe dairy breeds are the best, most flavoursome steaks. A bit tougher, of course... but that rich yellow fat, grass fed all its life. Hard to beat in my books. 

So this is probably infeasible for most folks, but since I have my own processing setup, I used to source surplus animals from small dairy operations that seemed promising for carcass quality. Older Jerseys and Holsteins are ridiculously good meat. 

[JDoughty]

1 hour ago, LizardGizmo said:

I’m a big fan of elk meat and buy all of my stuff from Fossil Farms - a locally owned farm raised and exotic meat provider. They’re close to where I live, but they’re a pretty big business now and ship all over the US. Their Elk Tenderloin is fantastic. I also get my Heritage Thanksgiving bird there every year. They also offer a discount for first responders, military and health care folks.

FossilFarms.com

Lizard T is actually considering an elk hunt this year, if successful some might be freighted over. 😁  We get plenty of local whitetail deer and IMO that is even better venison when you pick a good culinary target and dry age it properly. 

[El Hoze]

I also have a great local butcher, owned and operated by women. For everything from dry aged steaks to hot dogs they are my go-to. 

Fossil Farms is great, especially for game meat. 

Wild Fork is a great option for variety, but keep in mind as much as they try to hide this fact they are owned by the world’s largest meat processor (JBS in Brazil). Not exactly mom & pop if that matters to you. A lot of the more specialty items you order from them they do not produce, they are a distributor/reseller. Some of my favorite things to order from Wild Fork are their sausage (their Morcilla/Blood Sausage is one of the best I have had), various really cool cuts of Iberico pork (absolutely delicious, but as expensive as beef if not more), and Capons (sure it’s a castrated rooster but your family will just think it’s a really tasty chicken). I believe their delivery zones are more limited as it typically arrives by courier so you need to be within a certain radius of their facilities. 

Not sure if this counts but I also order sushi grade fish from Riviera Seafood. Expensive but very good. 

 

[chasy]

10 hours ago, El Hoze said:

I also have a great local butcher, owned and operated by women. For everything from dry aged steaks to hot dogs they are my go-to. 

Fossil Farms is great, especially for game meat. 

Wild Fork is a great option for variety, but keep in mind as much as they try to hide this fact they are owned by the world’s largest meat processor (JBS in Brazil). Not exactly mom & pop if that matters to you. A lot of the more specialty items you order from them they do not produce, they are a distributor/reseller. Some of my favorite things to order from Wild Fork are their sausage (their Morcilla/Blood Sausage is one of the best I have had), various really cool cuts of Iberico pork (absolutely delicious, but as expensive as beef if not more), and Capons (sure it’s a castrated rooster but your family will just think it’s a really tasty chicken). I believe their delivery zones are more limited as it typically arrives by courier so you need to be within a certain radius of their facilities. 

Not sure if this counts but I also order sushi grade fish from Riviera Seafood. Expensive but very good. 

Joey's Seafood???

[El Hoze]

2 minutes ago, chasy said:

Joey's Seafood???

Love Joey’s.

[JDoughty]

10 hours ago, El Hoze said:

Capons (sure it’s a castrated rooster but your family will just think it’s a really tasty chicken).

Caponizing roosters used to be a thing, because otherwise you ended up with way too many roosters than you need if you raise chickens the old school way. Uncastrated roosters crow, fight everything viciously including humans, grow nasty sharp spurs and are so physically active and full of hormones that they end up tough and scrawny. Still pretty good in the stew pot, very flavorful, but not fat and tender like a hen. Cue folks learning how to nip their testes in the bud so they grow up fat and lazy and tasty like a hen, just minus the egg laying. Rooster junk is completely internal so it is slightly complicated, but still considered basically a band-aid operation by old school farmers. A caponized rooster is as fat and tasty as a hen, but not really any more fat and tasty. If you see capon at a higher price than properly raised fat young pasture hen, it's not worth it since the end result isn't really distinguishable. The whole thing exists because it was more economical for the average smallholder to turn the extra roosters into better eats and a lot less trouble on the farmstead. 

[Chas.Alpha]

I’m pretty sucky at posting links, but I go to these places whenever I’m in town.

Jimmy P’s- Naples, Florida. Wagyu from Japan and Oz, amongst other things.

Cathy Mackenthun’s- St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. For the prairie folk. 
 

Both have websites and they ship within the states.

[thehat484]

On 3/24/2026 at 2:09 PM, Lant63 said:

Not my business, but if you are USA based Wagyu Window is ran by a cigar guy.  Great service and great product.  

https://thewagyuwindow.com/?absrc=Google&abid=611853325161&abcampid=17828936789&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7IjOBhDyARIsAFzrWQy_JyEPxvu_TCJIH42VteENOCD1FGrb0B31sFAnfoQ36YIoNm46IocaAgzmEALw_wcB&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17828936789&gbraid=0AAAAAowbBbdzr8eGZeGJyVzy7SvzZbKpi&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7IjOBhDyARIsAFzrWQy_JyEPxvu_TCJIH42VteENOCD1FGrb0B31sFAnfoQ36YIoNm46IocaAgzmEALw_wcB

Ay kez ban mihat hye gdank! Fire profile picture brother.

[chasy]

5 hours ago, Chas.Alpha said:

I’m pretty sucky at posting links, but I go to these places whenever I’m in town.

Jimmy P’s- Naples, Florida. Wagyu from Japan and Oz, amongst other things.

Cathy Mackenthun’s- St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. For the prairie folk. 
 

Both have websites and they ship within the states.

Check out Andre’s in Naples next time. An old school steak house in Naples, started by the old host from Peter Luger. 5pm is the hardest reservation to get lol!

[pohlmad]

I buy my meats from Second City Prime in the US. They have US Prime, Australian Wagyu and Japanese Wagyu when you are looking for beef. They also have sneaky good chicken, pork and seafood as well!  They ship overnight and I love that they provide recommendations on how to prepare what you buy (they also have a restaurant in Chicago). 
 

https://www.secondcityprime.com

[El Presidente]

A good US mate of mine has taken part ownership in the following: https://ngmeat.com/   (North Georgia Meat Company).

While I obviously don't order from them, he doesn't do anything by halves 

 

 

 

[Nevrknow]

Perfect timing. My wife has a knee replacement next Friday. Already placed a couple of orders from other new to me places gleaned from this thread. Just added another one. AND semi close to me. Week of the 20th I will be playing nurse. To her and my smokers. Oh the meat and cigar pictures shall over floweth with all that time at home. 😂😉