Event

A Day of Artisan Beef Butchery

Avedano's Butcher Shop in San Francisco, Slow Food Solano and Soul Food Farm come together again to honor the work of Master Butchers and the beauty of grassfeed local beef. The event will be held on Oct 15 featuring a grass feed steer from Agricola Grassfed Beef Ranch with top Bay Area chefs such as J.W.Foster of the Fairmont Hotel, Tia Harrison of Sociale and Paul Schroeder of Montis. They are cooking half of the aged beef and John Fink of the Whole Beast is grilling and talking about open fire cooking. At 3 p.m. master butchers,Dave the Butcher, Chris Arentz , Angela Wilson of Avedano's ,Zach Gero from Shoppers Corner and Josh Kleinsmith from Piedmont Grocery will demonstrate how to break down the second half of the same steer describing both American cuts and Italian cuts. The demo will be followed by a drawing of the cuts of beef. This event is held each year as a fund raiser to support local farms and agricultural projects in the Bay Area. All of the to be shared over artisan micro brews from La Trappe and Pacific Brewing laboratory.