Leabank Butcher is a neighbourhood butcher on Weymouth Road in Maxwell, Whanganui, rated 4.2 from 153 Google reviews. Reviewers praise fresh, good-quality meat at fair prices, with pork bones, bacon bones and watercress among the items mentioned most often.
A good butcher earns its keep on the cuts you don't see in the supermarket cabinet: bones for stock and soup, offcuts, and portions cut to the size your household needs. Bones and watercress point to the classic boil-up, and any butcher worth the name will tell you which bones give the best flavour and how long to simmer them. With a premium cut like scotch fillet, it's worth asking when the meat was cut and which piece suits your pan — quality varies carcass to carcass, and a butcher who talks you through it is one to keep.
For Maxwell and Whanganui households after choice cuts or bones for the pot, this Weymouth Road shop is a handy local.