The Observer 'FOOD MONTHLY'
Jack O'Shea
The Observer 'FOOD MONTHLY': Best butchers in the country - Jack O'Shea best in London
NOVEMBER 2007
The Observer 'Food Monthly' magazine's Christmas special listed the 'Country's top 10 meat suppliers'. Amongst the selected 10 butchers Jack O'Shea was the only shop with a London address.
The article reads:
JACK O'SHEA
"Since this dashing former racehorse trainer opened his UK shop last year he has been snapped up as a supplier to Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant, and has been seen lurking in Heston's new 'anorak' cooking series - so the beef should be good. And it is. Extraordinarily tender, 'bone-aged' Black Angus beef from Ireland, slaughtered at O'Shea's family abattoir. You can see the sides of beef hanging as you enter the shop and even demand extra time for that deep, deep flavour. Seaweed-fed Orkney lamb, organic and rare-breed pork, free-range and organic chickens, wild game and wagyu beef also available. Jack O'Shea, who also has a shop in Brussels, cuts the meat the continental way - ask for unusual steak cuts for quick grilling including beef bavette, beef onglet and lamb pavé
Jack O''Shea, 11 Montpellier Street, London SW7, 0207 581 7771, www.jackosheas.com, local delivery"
Jack's footnote:
Flattering as it is I was never a racehorse trainer, but stable boy on a famous show jumping yard.
The beef is cherry picked form a number of expert farms as opposed to be exclusively from the family farm.
