Meat Direct is an online butcher, listed here in Belmont, Lower Hutt. It has sold meat and seafood online since 1998, and it delivers across New Zealand. The range is free-farmed and free-range, with beef, lamb and venison from New Zealand pasture. It also sources scallops, Bluff oysters and West Coast whitebait in season, and less common meats such as wild pig and rabbit. The same products supply restaurants and cafés in the lower North Island.
Orders placed before 3pm usually arrive the next working day, though some areas take two days because of courier runs. Products are cut and vacuum packed on licensed premises, so they can go straight into the cooking, or into the fridge or freezer. Customers praise the beef and garlic sausages, the patties, the lamb shoulder and the rump steaks, and say the packing and delivery are reliable. The business says it will replace any product a customer is not satisfied with.