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Visited the Pickering shop last Saturday and as I said to the assistant "I have died and gone to heaven"! Purchased some of the Toulouse Sausage after spending quite some time wandering around the shop. Added this later to some puy lentils and voted them the best sausages tasted to date! We are frequent visitors to the Pickering and Helmsley area and will be returning. Thank you.

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Enjoyed your site,looks very interesting,lots of info and mouthwatering goodies

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The best place ever!!! My boyfriend and I just love the place. The meat is by far the best I have found in London and the staff are always so friendly and full of cooking tips and recipes. I frequent your shop in Borough but only get down there on Saturday so I am over the moon that you are opening up in Hackney as it's round the corner and means good meat all week. Keep up your outstanding work!

Re: Marylebone Shop

Hi

Have visited the Marylebone shop on a number of occasions and are now 'addicted' to the Beef Bourguignon pies! Keep up the good work.

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Roll on the Hackney Ginger Pig! please please please stay open until 6:30. You'll get a lot of passing trade.

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I like pigs and ginger ones! send me a hot crust bun! as laura wants one!
wow
get out of town
im in a pig house!

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Love the pig, love the man. Always will.

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go to the pickering shop all the time, was such a relief when it re-opened. But was has happened to the idea of a butchery there???? Have you given up now you got the Thornton Dale shop? Would be great to have a bigger variety in Pickering - was good when I could get cuts etc. The lamb and the pork burgers were a nice addition last week, and there were lamb cuts a few weeks ago, but this week it is back to sausage and bacon and not much more. Sometimes i think i could live off your sausages alone, but some change is nice!

Old Spots Sausages

Just visited Pickering today to buy a Green Man and saw that you have taken over the deli there. We have just had some of your Old Spot sausages for supper and Chris and I are in firm agreement that they are the best we have tasted for ages.

Well done and is there any chance of ordering through the internet (lazy as we live in York but the Pickering-Malton road can be hell at the weekends)?

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Very excited about the Hackney shop!

Gutted that as I work until 6, I won't be able to visit until the weekend.... Any plans for late night opening?

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Last night i had a 55 day hung rib eye steak. I was amazing.

Ginger Pig at Borough Market

It is not simply good care of the animals, not just great meat, nor good location.... I tell you what it is
, it is the honest, caring, and professional staff that make the Ginger pig that makes the Borough market one the best butcher in town...
Thanks Paul, Nathan, John, Ben, and the rest of the crew for the love and the passion you dedicate to good food. We need you guys to bring those values back...

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we had the best bit of beef from the Hackney store on Sunday - but please please open late one evening so that we don't have to wait until the weekend!

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The service at Borough Market is excellent. I was served by a knowledgable and charming young man, Charlie, who was able to speak with real insight about the quality, cut, flavour and suitablity of the produce. I haven't seen him recently however so hope he's just on holiday....and that it was a good one!

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We are in amazing meat heaven! Discovered the newly opened Ginger Pig in Hackney whilst eating accross the road from it a few weeks ago and we have been back twice weekly ever since. Bacon that tastes like good old fashioned bacon (not a drop of water in sight) and the most fabulous ribeye steaks, pies great and tonight I am cooking roast pork, can't wait. The first time in 15 years of living in Tower Hamlets that we have been able to get really good meat, we have been travelling all the way to Kent to buy our meet. Sorry lovely organic farmer in Kent, you have just lost out to the Hackney Ginger Pig. Looking forward to the rest of the shop being up and running, keep up the good work!

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I would never normally contribute to these pages, but I took a large selection of sausages, loads of bacon and a couple of black puddings to suffolk where a bunch of us rented a house for the bank holiday. I phoned in my order to Borut in Hackney and everyone has now put on about two stone! Having lived off the land most of my life I'm really fussy and your meat is FANTASTIC! Many many thanks to you all

Marylebone Store

Hello,
I would like to say that the Ginger pig is one of the finest places in the world.
I love to go there and chat to the french man who makes the terrines, foie gras, and patés. He is quite nice, and the gentleman who always gives me my cuts of meat is really nice.
You guys are absolute champions in my eyes, and i promise to buy you a round of beers if i ever see you out.

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I am a big fan and customer of the Borough Market shop but also managed to take a trip to Grange Farm a couple of years back and ate in the pub next door - it was a fantastic day out and the food and beer in the pub was spot on!

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Second visit to the butcher in thornton le dale, its a three hour round journey and worth the visit. Steve is a star and its a real pleasure to buy fantastic quality meat from him. he's a bit of a dish himself actually.
Having deer heart and liver tonight. Great stuff!

The Hackney Ginger Pig Shop.

My husband and I were in their new shop in Hackney yesterday to get ourselves some sirloin and rib-eye steaks after being recommended by a family friend. We were pleasantly surprised that they have a "deli" in the basement selling cold cuts, fresh veg, anti-pasta, sauces etc etc. They even have the yummiest brownies !!!!!!! PS: We had the tastiest sirloin & rib-eye steak !!!!!!!

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Slightly confused - where's the Thornton Dale shop gone - no mention of the Ginger Pig today???

Re: Ginger Pig, Borough

Bought some pork belly and large pork chops for the weekend. Your pork is truly outstanding. It looks, feels and smells great raw and cooks so incredibly well. I don't buy in the myth that you have to incenerate pork and providing you cook it right, your pork is as tender as aged ribeye. There is nothing that comes close to your meat in my view. The best thing, though, is that anyone who has been converted to real meat will know just how awful supermarket meat really is, and hopefully people will snub supermarkets to support companies like yours. Well done and thanks!

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I discovered your Hackney shop recently and was served by Borut (just one small 'a' makes him a different person). Having previously been a customer of Lidgate's in Notting Hill and Randall's in Wandsworth Bridge Road, it's refreshing to find a fine butchers that sells its own produce at realistic prices and offers a knowledgable and courteous service without being patronising and smug. Borut knows his butchery and wasn't afraid to show us 45 day aged rump covered in mould on one side - although I did follow him down the shop to watch. He even offered it to me to smell! One surprise though - I understand your veal is Dutch. I have concerns about methods of rearing outside the UK. The beef was as good as it gets and the new season lamb this week was superb. You have winning a formula; stick with it and your customers will come back over and over again.

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Good meat as always, thanks.

Don't know about Steve being a bit of a dish, the new cake-maker in Pickering is awesome!!!

Thornton Dale Shop

After reading Victorias comments we too, travelled a long way to visit the Thornton Dale shop. Not sure which was the biggest disappointment - the meat or the absence of Steve the dish!!

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I live by the Borough shop and we love it - but please please please do some more weeknight 6pm openings. You'd get much more trade at that end of the day than by opening early at 8:30am, I promise! there are lots of families living in the area.

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just going to bed. cant wait for the rib of beef roast 2morro. last weeks chicken was succulent. wednesdays fillet melted in the mouth. 2days sausage rolls and quiche were wonderful. all from lauriston rd. well done!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.XXX

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Please, please can the hackney shop stay open later than 6.30 one night a week? otherwise I have to skive off work early! (apparently wanting to go to the butchers is not a valid excuse...)