Mr Meats Otara is a butcher on Bairds Road in Otara, Auckland, rated 4.4. The shop opened in 2003 with the aim of making it easier to find fresh, local, wholesome meat in Auckland, and has built up direct relationships with its suppliers over the years since, relationships the shop says help keep costs down and pass those savings on to customers rather than being a chain retailer marking everything up the same way. It describes itself as a busy meat shop, which fits how a good local butcher usually earns its trade, steady, repeat custom from people who've found cuts and quality they trust rather than a one-off visit. Building that kind of supplier relationship takes years, so a butcher with a long-running local base like this one tends to have more access to good stock than a newer shop still establishing its connections. On Bairds Road in Otara, Mr Meats has been part of the local community since 2003.