Wagyu in Austin

[zephyrus]

At culinary school today one of our chef's mentioned The Meat Shop/Harrell Gourmet. It is owned by the same people who own Harrell Ranch, the only American producer of Wagyu beef. (In Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything it is the Wagyu beef he mentions that is being developed at Texas A&M) I ventured up to the shop after class today and purchased 2 1/3 lbs of Wagyu ribeyes for 75.00, much cheaper than lobels( even without the shipping). Am eating it tomorrow so will report back on the quality then(it loks nearly identical if not a bit a slightly better red color).

The Meat Shop also sells their own Harrel Ranch dry aged Prime Beef. They are located across from Lanier high school at 948 Peyton Gin Road which is about a 1 mile north of 183. If anyone would like me to fax them a copy of their product list please PM me.

Cheers,

Casey

p.s. their phone number is 512.837.6331 (I would call ahead before driving just to make sure that they have Wagyu in stock as the gentleman who helped me said that they do periodically run out.

[NewYorkTexan]

Pictures of the wagyu ribeyes would be nice......yeah.....pictures before cooking and post cooking........yeah pictures......

[Richard Kilgore]

Thanks for posting. Do they have a website or email address? Please do post photos if you can.

[jscarbor]

Last I checked they don't have a web site. I will try and find an article on the place and post if I do. I found the regular Prime meat to be tastier than the Wagyu when I went. Its a great place, that's for sure.

[foodie52]

For 75 bucks, I can fly to Vegas.....

[fitz]

We've gotten nice stuff quite a few times at The Meat Shop, including the Wagyu, which we did on the grill with a nice herbed crust (the whole business wrapped in foil as per their instructions). Yum!!!

[zephyrus]

The wagyu was spectacular, i am trying to get this damned digital camera to upload the pictures to my computer and am not having an success. I took many pictures and as will post them very soon.

casey

Edited September 6, 2003 by zephyrus (log)

[tulanian]

Their website isn't very informative, but here it is.

http://www.harrellgourmet.com/

I can vouch for the quality of the steaks, the dry-aged organic NY strips are amazing. They slice all their meat to order and vacuum-seal it.

[Kent Wang]

I will probably check out Harrell soon.

Two or three years ago I went to a pot luck at Patricia's, owner of Sweetish Hill and founder of Portabla, house and met a Japanese couple who grew Japanese beef and supplied it to Portabla. I can't remember if it was Wagyu or Kobe but they were awaiting organic certification at the time. I hope to enquire after them next time I stop in at Portabla or see Patricia again. I'll be sure to report back here.

[fifi]

I started this thread on Wagyu beef in Texas in general. There is a link to some information on Harrell there.