Supercharge your holiday menu with game meats, from venison to chukar, available at these five Bay Area butcher shops.
Winter’s the time to indulge the primal urge for game meat – or at least as close as we get to “primal” with our fancy kamado grills, bouquets garnis and port-and-juniper reductions. CaliforniaBut there are good options, often in the freezer case, if you know where to go. Here are a few local shops that carry game meat. Be sure to call ahead to check availability.This institution, which dates back to 1891, carries tons of specialty meats, sometimes even more than what’s listed on their website.
A bonus is that a lot of the meats are halal.This small but wonderfully stocked operation in Berkeley sometimes carries game like quail and rabbit. They also have duck and heritage turkeys whose family trees go back hundreds of years. Peer into the freezer for more esoteric offerings, which can include haggis and chocolate cookies made with leaf lard.Willowside has served Sonoma farmers and ranchers for almost six decades out of a charming shop that looks preserved in amber.
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