Firdaus Halal Meats is a halal butcher on Fifth Avenue in Enderley, Hamilton, with a 4.4 rating on Google. The appeal of a halal butcher is certainty: everything in the cabinet is prepared to Islamic dietary requirements, with no pork or alcohol-based products, so there's no label-reading to do. A good one then earns its keep with knife work — cutting to order, dicing stewing beef, running mince lean or fatty, trimming a rack so it goes straight into the oven. Curry cooks do well to ask after bone-in cuts, mutton or goat, which add depth to a slow pot and usually cost less than boneless meat. Around Eid, demand at halal butchers everywhere runs high, so ordering ahead is the regulars' trick. For Enderley households, having that kind of shop on Fifth Avenue means halal meat done properly is a short errand rather than a drive across town.