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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. —Slow Food San Francisco . . . let ’im get carnal with a butchery class at Avedano’s Holly Park Market. —Daily Candy Tia Harrison at Avedano’s in San Francisco buys whole carcasses and breaks them down herself. —New York Times Not surprisingly, the list of participants read like a who's who of current carnivorishness . . . . —Bay Area Bites 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. —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. —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. . . . —AP/GuelphMercury.com Winner: Best Specialty Market & Butcher Shop 2008 —SF Weekly Winner: Best New Neighborhood Market —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. —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. —Meatpaper 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. —7 x 7, Bits + Bites ...the women butcher beautiful retail cuts and prepare delectable takeaway dishes with meats sold at the shop. —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. —Bay Area Bites Avedano's...is the adoptive heir to a butcher-shop dynasty that has occupied 235 Cortland Avenue since 1901. —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. —San Francisco Chronicle ...a butcher shop with sustainable meat in Bernal Heights: "People take their eating habits here seriously." —San Francisco Business Journal Press contact: Nancy Uber | NÜ PR | 415-672-2950 | |
