In this steakhouse-heavy town, it's easy to leave the cooking to the chefs. But when it's time to showcase your grilling skills at home, your source for beef can make or break your dinner. Visit longtime standby Roy Pope Grocery for flavorful, marbled strip steaks. Invest in a freezer for bulk beef purchases from chef favorite farms like Burgundy Pasture Beef and Texas Heritage Beef and new Farm to Fork Foods, which also sources sustainable seafood for us landlocked North Texans.
Roy Pope Grocery
This butcher shop and grocer recently celebrated its 70th anniversary. It's where locals go for heavily marbled strip steaks that are hand trimmed by owner Bob Larance. "We buy heavy aged beef," he says. "You're going to get a lot more marbling and flavor than from buying younger cattle. If you don't have fat and marbling, you're not going have good flavor."
2300 Merrick St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817.732.8202
Burgundy Pasture Beef
Bonnell's, MICHAELS Cuisine and Swiss Pastry Shop all source from Burgundy Pasture Beef, which offers 100 percent grass-fed beef that's raised in a natural habitat on a natural diet. "We do cuts you won't see in a grocery store," says Texas beef artisan Wendy Taggart, who owns the business along with her husband, Jon. Visit them in Grandview to buy from their store or order online for home delivery.
800 McDuff Ave.
Grandview, Texas 76050
817.866.2247
Central Market
Regular visitors know to wait patiently for the busy fishmongers at Central Market's seafood section to call their numbers. With more than 100 varieties of saltwater and freshwater fish and shellfish flown into Texas up to six days a week from all over the world, it's the best place in town to get seafood that has most likely only been out of the water for 48 hours.
4651 West Freeway
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817.989.4700
Texas Heritage Beef
In addition to 14-day, dry-aged Texas longhorn beef, which is lower in saturated fat than many other varieties, Texas Heritage Beef sells jerky and sausages, including cracked pepper and jalapeño cheddar flavors. The most popular beef cuts are rib eye and New York strip, but owner Kathy Quiat says her ground beef is exquisite because the entire carcass is dry-aged. Find her products at farmers markets in Keller, Colleyville, Hurst and Bedford. All products are gluten- and GMO-free.
817.690.7327
Farm to Fork Foods
This natural food co-op offers grass-fed Angus, longhorn and bison, free-range and pastured chicken and pork, local raw honey and even Alaskan sockeye salmon, halibut and crab. Orders are taken each month, and there are designated pick up times, with pick-up spots located in Arlington and North Fort Worth.
817.995.5594
