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.
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Food & Wine
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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San Francisco Chronicle
[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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AP/GuelphMercury.com
Winner: Best Specialty Market & Butcher Shop 2008
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SF Weekly
Winner: Best New Neighborhood Market
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7 x7 Magazine
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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Daily Candy
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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Meatpaper
Avedano's is becoming one of the city's most sought-after caterers, with offerings like roast suckling pig.
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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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Bits + Bites
...the women butcher beautiful retail cuts and prepare delectable takeaway dishes with meats sold at the shop.
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Saveur
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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Bay Area Bites
Avedano's...is the adoptive heir to a butcher-shop dynasty that has occupied 235 Cortland Avenue since 1901.
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Edible San Francisco
...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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San Francisco Chronicle
...a butcher shop with sustainable meat in Bernal Heights: "People take their eating habits here seriously."
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San Francisco Business Journal
Avedano’s is the dreamchild of three women– Tia Harrison, Melanie Eisemann, and Angela Wilson. . . . The location, 235 Cortland Avenue (at Bocana), has been a butcher shop ever since it opened as Cicero’s Meats in 1901.
—Food For The Thoughlesst