Gawler River Cattle

These guys are slowly growing their business around the place, and the store here on South Road in Thebarton is relatively new as I write now. There was a time when you would only find Gawler River Cattle Co. out in the country areas along the coast or inland beyond the city, but now they are popping up with outlets here and there. Definitely worth visiting for the meat eating population. These shops are old school butchers with young apprentices and actual people from the land a lot of the time, so it is part of a tradition rather than a chain supermarket. It is owned by farmers and there is a significant difference in the prices they offer and the availability of organic meat.
Now there are chickens, turkeys, goat meat, lamb, beef and pork; and if you do not appreciate the difference between one type of cut of meat and the next they will happily explain it to you because they are butchers. The main difference I find besides the price is the attitude to customer service. It is not unusual for one of the guys here to stop you and make a suggestion that will save you money depending on what you are doing. Best example: ordering chicken wings (thinking it is the cheapest way to do a particular curry) and being told I could spend the same amount of money and get twice the amount of actual edible chicken by purchasing something else… a different cut. And yes it was correct and I ended up spending less money for more actual meat. To me that says it all; but there are other positive things. The goat meat. For many families it was recently Diwali, a festival that comes in my world from the Hindu tradition — and during this time my family eat goat.
I couldn’t imagine any supermarket selling you goat, but here it is always available and always remarkably inexpensive. So again, I suggest you check it out or look at their website first and see what you think.
Final word — they are open seven days — I suppose this is because they have to compete with super markets that are also open seven days, but the benefit here from my point of view is that you can therefore pop in and buy fresh meat daily without needing to stock up the fridge or freezer at home (this is a great thing if you have vegans in the house who freak out at meat being in the fridge) so yes, check them out.