Chop Craft Butchers, trading as Chop Online Meats, has opened its first retail store in Milford at 52 East Coast Road. Customers can collect online orders there, chat to the team and shop in store for the same award-winning products sold online. The website says the meat is 100 per cent New Zealand beef and lamb, free-farmed pork and free-range chicken, all cut fresh daily. Sausages, bacon, ham, patties and black pudding are made from scratch by the butchers, and smoked and cured lines such as pork belly and pastrami are also sold. Orders can also be shipped to the door in insulated boxes with ice packs, and meat boxes are available.
Customers say a whole ham was the best they had cooked or eaten, and that the service was excellent. One family of six says the meat was better quality at a fair price than supermarket meat. Another says the quality has been outstanding each time, with fresh, well-packed meat, and that the delivery is reliable. The Christmas ordering is open on the website through the cart. Our pick in Milford for fresh meat and house-made sausages from a team that will chat to you.