Butcher on Butler

Specialties

Providing local, humanely raised meats to the historic Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We are a full service retail meat shop, deli, and smokehouse. Our historic smokehouse produces the legendary original Fosters kolbasa, as well as up to 15 varieties of house made bacon, beef sticks, smoked organic salmon, various traditional sausages, and house made deli meats. We offer daily lunch specials as well as off site catering, specializing in spit roasted local pigs. We also wholesale to some of the finer area restaurants, including E2, Carmella’s Pints an Plates, and Butterjoint among others.

History

Established in 2014.

This building has stood as a full service butcher shop for nearly 70 years, first with original proprietors Ferlan & Sons. In 1985, Bruce Foster purchased the building and business an rechristened it Fosters Meats, keeping the legendary Ferlan kolbasa recipe. Upon Bruces untimely passing in 2012, Michael Rado, a loyal Fosters customer and classically trained chef, decided that Lawrenceville needed to keep its butcher shop. He, along with his wife Katie and partner/​colleague Robert Voigt worked tirelessly to secure the purchase of the building and business, along with (of course) the original kolbasa recipe. After many bank meetings and two months of remodeling, the newly named Butcher on Butler opened its doors in February 2014. Our family hopes to keep the tradition of reasonably priced, hand cut/​made fresh and smoked meats here in Lawrencevilles 10^th ward for decades to come.

Meet the Business Owner

Michael R.

Business Owner

Owner/​Head Meat Ninja Michael Rado worked in restaurants for nearly 20 years, everywhere from New York City to Las Vegas and (nearly) all points in between. He and wife Katie moved from Las Vegas to his Mothers home town of Pittsburgh to open the Rivers Casino in the spring of 2009. Having been trained under luminary Chefs such as Daniel Boulud and Joel Robuchon, Michael felt more than ready to undertake his newest venture (and restaurant «retirement») as a butcher. You can find Michael and his big red beard at the shop, just 3 blocks from his house, on most days, hacking away at locally raised livestock, making sausage, or sharing a beer, er, coffee, with one of the shops regular customers.

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