Another business that attracts people from outside Bernal Heights is Avedanos, a butcher shop that opened in 2007 in a historic meat market. . . . The butchers . . . cut the meat by hand from whole animals, including grass-fed beef and lamb.
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"Being a butcher, the ultimate respect I can pay to the animal is not to waste any part. That would be a waste of not only the animal, but also the farmer’s work, time and energy that went into raising it." A shopper at Avedano’s can experience a butcher’s passion for meat.
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In many ways, Avedano’s Holly Park Meat Market is a throwback to days gone by. Just the look and feel of the cozy little shop on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights invites memories of the past.
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. . . let ’im get carnal with a butchery class at Avedano’s Holly Park Market.
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Tia Harrison at Avedano’s in San Francisco buys whole carcasses and breaks them down herself.
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Not surprisingly, the list of participants read like a who's who of current carnivorishness . . . . —
A passionate commitment to locally raised meat
At Avedano’s, co-owners Tia Harrison, Melanie Eisemann and Angela Wilson are serious about humanely and often locally raised meat; sustainability is also a must for the grocery items they sell.
— Spicing up sausages this Fourth of July
Small independent stores like . . . Avedano's Holly Park Market . . . are producing myriad sausages by hand with natural or organic meat, sometimes from local farms.
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[B]ehind those vintage trappings, Avedano's is on the cutting edge of 21st-century food trends, owned and operated by three women. . . .
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Winner: Best Specialty Market & Butcher Shop 2008
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Winner: Best New Neighborhood Market
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There are two kinds of meat markets. One you avoid like mad cow disease (unless you’re feeling really lonely). The other is an old-fashioned resource for making dinner. Avedano’s Holly Park Market, the latest addition to Bernal Heights, falls into the latter category.
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Harrison, Eisemann, and Wilson are reviving the role of the traditional neighborhood butcher—the kind who knows your kids' names and can get a couple pounds of marrow bones for you.
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Avedano's is becoming one of the city's most sought-after caterers, with offerings like roast suckling pig.
—Food & Wine
As a Bernal Heights resident, I’m having a little Bernal pride moment. Maybe a little girl power moment, too.
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...the women butcher beautiful retail cuts and prepare delectable takeaway dishes with meats sold at the shop.
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If you hadn't guessed by now, I love Avedano’s. For me, it's one thing for a place to have good, fresh food. Pack a place with nice folks and quirky (and unselfconscious) detail and I am an instant fan.
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Avedano's...is the adoptive heir to a butcher-shop dynasty that has occupied 235 Cortland Avenue since 1901.
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...the butcher shop on Cortland Avenue is the only women-run store of its kind in San Francisco. They're cutting meat and chopping up stereotypes...Avedano's offers fish, including wild-caught salmon and petrale sole. They even serve an array of take-out dinners prepared daily—from soups and paninis to cured meats and tacos on Sundays, all made with local, organic ingredients—because they like to cook as well as cut.
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...a butcher shop with sustainable meat in Bernal Heights: "People take their eating habits here seriously."
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