Your Neighborhood Butcher Shop

Let’s Meat on the Avenue is dedicated to becoming Your Neighborhood Butcher Shop. Steve Gatward, the butcher/proprietor, sells pasture-fed, free range and hormone-free meat and poultry at 2403 Mount Vernon Avenue, Del Ray, Virginia.

Steve knows that his customers are concerned about the quality of the food they feed their family. He focuses on providing fresh meat and poultry that comes from local and reputable suppliers. Although he does also sell some products from farther afield, he maintains a strong relationship with his suppliers to ensure that his customers get the highest quality meat and poultry available at the most reasonable prices.

 Steve ensures that all his beef is free range, pasture-fed and hormone and steroid free. He knows where his beef comes from so that his customers never have to worry. He recently introduced cage free, hormone and steroid free Veal either organic from Ayrshire Farm or free range from further afield.

Having lived in Australia for almost 20 years, Steve enjoys selling Kobe Beef from Greg Norman's ranch in Australia.

Poultry

Organic chicken from Ayrshire Farm and free range from Pennsylvania are raised without antibiotics and are given room to roam.  The chickens are raised without antibiotics on a 100% natural, all-vegetable diet fortified with vitamins and minerals. They are never fed growth hormones. These are juicy birds,  try one and see.

The Store

Let’s Meat on the Avenue is an inviting store with a black and white painted floor, cantaloupe walls and old British themed posters.

An antique butcher block holds a basket of smoked marrow bones - a favorite of Del Ray’s four- legged friends. Steve wears aprons imported from Ipswich, England as he grinds fresh hamburger in the window, behind his signature sign - Your Neighborhood Butcher.

A chalkboard announces the day’s specials, and a wall unit has sauces and condiments, including a large variety of BBQ sauces and marinades.   Try the locally made Pork Barrel BBQ sauce, made by the people who are opening a restaurant right across the road from us.