99 Park Street, Salisbury
Harrison Bros butchers are the best butchers in town. Hidden away from the main run of shops in the city centre, you will find Harrisons on the corner of College Street and Park Street (where the entrance is). As you jingle through the chain door curtain you are not greeted by a clinical high glass or perspex counter and unsure looks from teenagers doing their first job, but a proper butcher’s block, well hewn from the daily shave it gets to ensure its clean and level for the next day. You are face to face with either of the Harrison brothers and their polite countenance and attentive manner make shopping here a joy. Their meat is well-provenanced and the butchers are knowledgeable about the proper cuts needed for your recipes.
In addition to raw meat they supply ready-marinated meat for barbeques, grilling or roasting, some of the best sausages we’ve ever had (and we’ve had a few) - their Toulouse and hickory smoked are particularly worthy of mention, home-baked ham and definitely the most supreme scotch eggs you’re ever likely to taste. Those supermarket ones will seem like pingpong balls coated in greasy polystyrene in comparison. Harrisons also sells locally grown vegetables, some lader foods like tins and jars of vegetables and sauses, and in barbeque season, ecologically sound Dorset charcoal.
Harrisons do what butchers ought to do.
UPDATE: Harrison Bros have just been nominated for UKTV Local Food Heros 2006 awards.
Hi Guys
Your link to Dorset Charcoal simply links back to the home page of the Scrutineer.
BTW - I agree with everything you say about Harrison’s - easily the best butcher in Salisbury.
Thanks Charles, a copy pasting error in my excitement! Duly corrected.
Meat well provenanced? I went in asking for local meat - preferably free range - preferably rare breed. It was immediately obvious that much of the meat whilst expertly butchered in the shop may well be sourced from the usual wholesale suppliers, ie anywhere and everywhere. Looks may be deceiving this shop certainly looks the part but sourcing was a concern to me as it is with all butchers in salisbury - with few examples of truly local meat (and proven high welfare) to be found (yep I’ve tried them all!) what good is good lookin, even tasting meat if it comes from intensive farms - our meat is regularly sourced from Europe, spain being the main source of pork for example. Be sure to ask - where is it from, how is it reared?
Hi am am just contacting you to ask if this is a butchers and if so how much would you charge too do a hog roast for a wedding if you do.
Would be greatfull for reply to the above e-mail address no - matter the asnwer.just so i can take you off my contacts list or add the details accordingly.
Yours - thankfully
David wood
( business owner )
Err, no, this isn’t the butcher’s website! We’re just an independant blog covering things we like in Salisbury…
Best check out the Yellow Pages and give them a call