Hibbards Butchery is a Christchurch butcher on Stanmore Road that pairs an old-fashioned counter with a full online store, delivering fresh meat straight to customers' doors under a simple motto: better meat at lower prices. The shop has built a reputation among locals for quality — the team describes it as having the best meat in Christchurch — while keeping prices among the lowest around.
The range runs from everyday staples to weekend centrepieces: fresh beef, lamb, pork and chicken, a dedicated steak selection, roasts, sausages and patties, plus a deli and small goods counter and a rubs and spices section. Around Christmas, a seasonal range of festive meats joins the shelves. Among the house highlights are a dry aged beef porterhouse on the bone and an award-winning nitrate-free dry-cured streaky bacon.
Ordering online is straightforward: choose from meat boxes — family packs, protein packs and BBQ packs at different price points — or individual cuts, and place your order by 2pm the day before. Deliveries run Monday to Friday across the Christchurch region and out to Ashburton, Darfield, Banks Peninsula, Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura, typically arriving within one to three days. Prefer to shop in person? The store is open seven days a week, weekdays from 7:30am to 5:30pm and weekends from 8am to 4pm, with any questions answered on 03-389 8065.
Hibbards Butchery runs on a simple promise: better meat at lower prices. From its shop on Stanmore Road in Christchurch, the Hibbards team serves customers the traditional way — over the counter, with a butcher's eye for a good cut — and through a full online store that delivers fresh meat straight to doors across the region. It is a setup that suits busy households: browse the catalogue when it suits you, order by 2pm the day before, and have your meat arrive fresh.
Quality is the claim the shop leans on hardest. Hibbards has a reputation for the best quality meat in Christchurch, matched — in its own words — with some of the lowest prices around. Whether it is mince for a midweek dinner or something special for the grill, the idea is the same: no compromise on the meat, no premium on the price tag.
The range covers the whole kitchen. Fresh categories include beef, lamb, pork and chicken, alongside a dedicated steak selection and a roasts section. The deli and small goods counter is home to some of Hibbards' best-known products, including an award-winning nitrate-free dry-cured streaky bacon that has become something of a signature. Sausages and patties get categories of their own — the everyday heroes of any butcher's shop — and a rubs and spices section rounds things out for home cooks who like to do the seasoning themselves. In the lead-up to Christmas, a seasonal range of festive meats joins the shelves too.
The beef cabinet is where the dry-ageing happens. The dry aged beef porterhouse on the bone is one of the shop's featured products, offered in a range of sizes — whether you are cooking for two or feeding a crowd.
Hibbards' meat boxes are a big part of the appeal. The boxes bundle the butchery's meat into ready-to-shop packs at different price points: family meat packs for the household, a protein pack for anyone stocking up on high-protein staples, BBQ packs in a couple of sizes for grill season, smaller meat packs for smaller households, and a 2kg beef pack for freezer-filling. Because the boxes are put together by the butchery itself, they are a straightforward way to keep the fridge stocked without overthinking the weekly shop.
The online store delivers Monday to Friday. Within Christchurch, orders go out across the region on weekdays, and the delivery map stretches well beyond the city — as far down as Ashburton, across to Darfield, around Banks Peninsula, and right through to Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura townships. The rule of thumb is simple: get your order in by 2pm the day before, and the team aims to have it out with the courier on the following delivery day. From there, delivery to your door typically takes one to three days.
Payments are handled online with Visa and Mastercard, and anyone with questions before ordering is invited to call the shop directly on 03-389 8065.
Prefer to shop in person? The Stanmore Road store opens Monday to Friday from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00am to 4:00pm — weekends covered, whether the plan is a Saturday BBQ or a Sunday roast. Between the counter, the online catalogue and the delivery run, Hibbards Butchery manages to be both an old-school neighbourhood butcher and a modern online meat shop, without letting go of the thing that matters most: quality meat at prices that keep people coming back.