OFM readers have voted for this Yorkshire-based online butcher with a passion for provenance, cut and conditioning as their retailer of the year
Over the past seven years, since he co-founded the Yorkshire-based online butcher Farmison & Co, John Pallagi has eaten in a lot of top-of-the-range steakhouses around the world, in search of new ideas for his virtual meat counter. One such experience last January in Huntington Beach, California, led to the creation of Farmison’s steak & bone marrow burgers, which later topped a survey of best home-cook burgers in the Times. (Having tried them myself, I can report that the verdict – “insanely flavoursome” – is pretty accurate.) Much as he admired what was going on in New York and Buenos Aires, however, Pallagi felt that there was just as much to get excited about in the UK, if only we made a bigger fuss about it.
“We’ve got some real gems in this country,” he says, “but we just don’t know how good we are. British meat doesn’t have the international reputation it deserves.”
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