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The Weekly Giveaway: Win This Sweet Bodum Press (and Scope the City’s Best Butcher Shops)

8 comments so far | January 24, 2012 | By

Last week we began first of our series of weekly reader contests: We asked you to tell us about your favorite butcher shop, choosing one winner (he’s announced below) from comments on both Edible Brooklyn.com and Edible Manhattan.com to score one lovely little Fyrkat grill. This week’s contest winner will take home one of those pricey Bodum presses.

Here’s how to enter to win: Tell us about your favorite seafood shop in the comments below before midnight on Friday. Be sure to register with a real email address so we can contact you later if you win. We’ll pick a reader based on what we think is the best response. Extra points for those who lead us to best-ofs we haven’t already tracked down for our online listings.

Now back to last week’s contest winner: Your answers were amazing, calling out butcher shops and shopkeepers from both Brooklyn and Manhattan that both know their trade and choose their proteins wisely. (We encourage you to read about them both here and on Edible Manhattan.com.) It was tough to pick a winner, but we chose Peter Durnin, a commenter on this site, because, well, he told us about a butcher shop that wasn’t even open yet. Impressive.

Durnin suggested Tiberio Custom Meats, a little shop currently run in the window of Sauce restaurant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side by former Dickson’s Farmstead Meats man Adam Tiberio.  (Dickson’s is in Chelsea Market, and it, along with the Meat Hook in Williamsburg and Staubitz in Cobble Hill, was a top choice among commenters.) Tiberio, who is hoping to open a USDA-inspected cut-and-wrap meat processing facility in New York City to serve not just us but restaurants, Greenmarket farmers, and other meat companies–even ran a workshop this year at New Amsterdam Market on meat cutting and getting more sustainably raised meats onto city plates.

Writes Durnin: “Tiberio Custom Meats. Adam Tiberio knows his trade. Has collaborated with Frank Prisinzano at Sauce Restaurant. Head butcher at Dickson’s Farmstand. Creator of the Tiberio Steak. And, from what I have read, is planning to open a storefront in Brooklyn. Would make sure to keep an eye out for more news of this venture.”

Thanks to you, Peter, we will be sure to!

 

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  • Annee Elliot

    The best seafood shop is The Lobster Shop in Chelsea Market. You can have some wonderful sushi or chowder before or after shopping. It’s my favorite place to buy cod. The fish is so fresh and beautiful here.

  • Frannyonthego

    The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market…taste the chowders(favorite has bacon-porklicious) and lovely lobster bisque. The freshest good looking seafood around. Sushi made from the uber fresh seafood. You can eat indoors at the vast market or take home to create your own seafood creation  like Lobster Albert. .FrannyAlbert
    Frannyonthego@aol.com

  • Pat Duffy

    It’s not in Brooklyn and it’s not in Manhattan, so I hope it still counts. I’ve always loved Fisherman’s Cove in Staten Island! Great choices of fish and knowledgeable staff make it worth visiting. 

  • Anonymous

    I also have to put down that it is the lobster place at Chelsea Market, best shrimp cocktails I’ve tasted! They also made sushi from any of the items there for me!

  • rococo

    FishTales on Court Street . Incredibly fresh fish at fair prices. And just recently they are opened on Sundays meaning you can get top quality seafood everyday of the week. Helpful and knowledgeable staff.

  • Elizabeth Green

    My favorite seafood shop is Avenue U Fish Market in Brooklyn, a family owned business that has been there as long as I can remember (I have lived in the neighborhood since 1975). The fish is fresh and the service is great.

  • dorit

    sorry all, best and freshest is from the source itself…when you can get yourself up early and out to the new fulton fish market at hunts points youll have the freshest, best, most local, and of course cheapest selection of the best. *hint: develop a relationship w a favorite fisherman for consistent quality

  • John Osborne

    Ditto The Lobster Place in Chelsea Markets; jumbo sea scallops better than I can get in most 3-star restos!  Not cheap, but…