Beefway Meats

PICANHA!!! their brazilian style picanha cut is perfect! also the «fraldinha» and the sausage. Keep the good work guys! You now have a loyal customer! Bring more brazilian cuts for barbeque please, and toscana sausage too!!!

Love this place. I always come for the flat iron steaks which are amazing. Great prices and great service. They also just started selling maui ribs!
Just a great old school butcher shop with pigs hanging from the roof!

Very nice people. Fair prices. I will return. The bread store next door has really great prices. Excellent A 1 ******************

Not a place for a PETA person.
I was in the hood and I’ve known about this place for quite some time. Since my most recent acquisition of a smoke box and some wood chips, I needed to check out cuts of meat. I came here.
The front of the store is relatively small, but the back area is what you would call an open concept slaughterhouse. You know open kitchen concepts in homes? Open concept cutting, meathooks, and carcasses hanging about. You can see the butchers cutting away the musculature, bones, and proteins! It’s all there. Pretty violent. Ain’t pretty if you’re a vegan.
Things I was looking for:
Intact beef brisket
Whole side ribs
Pork shoulders and butts
Normally I’d go into Chinatown for this, but they tend to trim everything. I wanted semi-​trimmed to untrimmed. I’m going to do the butchering, and trimming myself.
Found everything. They were quite friendly and willing to answer a couple of questions I had.
This place is definitely worth considering. I need to look around a bit more. There are a couple of other places I need to look into. Chances are, I will be back.
The store is also partnered with a discount bread/​bakery, McGavins. May as well get your buns here too!

I’ve been coming here for 5 years or so. The staff are friendly and most are quite knowledgeable.
The meat is generaly good to very good and the prices are okay if you buy in bulk. Lets say you buy 5lbs of lean ground beef you will save a few bucks. The question is, are you wilingl to wrap and freeze some meat and do you have the freezer space?
They also have freezer packs for sale. Another money saver.
The meat here is by far superior to all big chain grocery stores.
As a bonus, there is a bulk bakery next door, just walk on through to the other side (thank you Jim M).You can get your ground beef and your burger buns in one stop.

I was in Beefway Meats today for the first time after reading all the positive reviews.
Ordered .5 lb of ground beef and the ground beef looked very fresh (bright red) in the display case, but when the young lady helping me took a handful of the ground beef, the ground beef underneath the bright red ground beef was a dull brown color. Questioned her about the difference in the color and she said it was due to ‘oxidation’. Not wanting to argue, I took the ground beef, but later after doing some online research — ground beef with dull brown color is due to being exposed to air for too long. This ground beef will be thrown out.

I don’t live in the neighborhood anymore, but I’m so glad I did because I may have never known about Beefway Meats! I still make the drive out to this butcher because they are the bomb. It’s true, they have any + all kinds of cuts + meats here. Don’t forget to check in the fridge for their vacuum packed bacon ends. Soooo goood. It’s clean, you can see all the workers trimming + chopping the meat. Sometimes a recipe calls for a type of cut that I’m not familiar with, but the staff are always very pleasant + never make me feel like a meat ignormamus.

Best kept secret… Well, maybe not anymore ;-)
Free range chicken and excellent beef. All at great prices.

I like their big pork chops.

Solid butcher. Steaks are good quality. Chicken is good too. Boneless pork chops might be best value. Pork butt and beef brisket are all good too. This is a wholesaler.
Service is good, but need tickets at counter for service as sometimes it’s confusing as to whose turn it is.

I didn’t actually shop here, but you’ll know why I’ll NEVER shop here after you read this ! Saturday evening I passed by their windows on the way to the bus stop. I like to look in on local markets’ even when they’re not open to see if anything catches my interest for a further investigation. Boy was I in for a shock ! The shop was closed but if I didn’t know any better I would have thought I was looking into an insect enclosure display at the zoo ! There were so many black flies buzzing around, landing on a dirty rag next to the slicer, or on the wooden cutting block (which by the way still had specks of meat trimmings on it) ! At any given time there were no less than five massive black flies ON the board and another five or so on the rag, with others flying around chilling themselves on the floor fan that had been left on for the night ! I sure hope all of you who have given this place a five star rating realize every fly on the cutting board deserve each star you’ve given them ! God help your digestive system too should you eat anything from this shop !

I don’t eat meat that often but this is the only place I go whenever I have a craving. The prices are great, and you can get ANYTHING here (except for the time when they ran out of chicken gizzards… it was a sad day).
I love the fact that it’s fresh, clean, and I can buy the exact amount of food I need to cook for just 1 person.

As a foodie… I prefer to get my meat from a butcher. I’m over those pretentious west end butchers. The staff are nice, the meats are reasonably priced and if your meat needs a little dressing and personality, they have sauces and gravies to help out as well. Down to earth meat shop. I wish that there were more of these in the city. I find the meat more reliable and fresher here than what I get at Extra Foods in my neighborhood. It’s just sometimes out of my way even though it really isn’t.

Thank god for the bad décor at Beefway Meats. If it was more fashionable it would be seething with west-​side douchebags challenging their pampered filet mignon palettes with the «snout to tail» food trend.
This place has *the best* prices, amazing (truly amazing knowledgeable and friendly) service, the worlds best selection (looking for something obscure? Need a bag of pigs trotters or chicken tongues? Not sure if that’s a thing but if it is, this place will have it) and everything a meat lover could possibly want, minus the irrelevant bullshit «palace of meat» décor. The place is spotless, well lit, and open so you can see your friendly helpful butcher custom-​slicing your exact portion requirement for whatever food-​blog-​worthy menu you have planned.
I heart Beefway Meats. I hope they never change their name or décor.

The best butcher shop in Vancouver. Both by price and quality of service. I use Beefway for all my protiens. I have purchased everything from a single steak (that I took home and marinated for 2 days) to a whole 125Lb pig (that I roasted over an open fire in my backyard in the middle of January*) and always been happy with the products.
If you are ever there stand at the counter and wait for someone to open the cooler door and there it is «Meat Heaven» and a very cold lady trimming meat.
*side note — don’t try to cook a 125Lb pig over an open fire in January unless you have at least 12 hours.

I can’t say enough good things about Beefway. They’re personable, knowledgable and most importantly, carry a superior product. This is an «old school» sawdust on the floor type of butcher shop where everything is in view. You can make specific requests and watch as a butcher skillfully carries them out in front of you.
They cater to an international clientel with specialty cuts like Brazilian «Picanha» or top sirlion that’s BBQ ready. There’s also reasonably priced bags of bones– perfect for soup stock by the front door.

We just recently moved to the neighbourhood and decided to try out Beefway Meats based on the reviews we saw on Unilocal.We were totally blown away by the excellent selection and fantastic prices — if you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and pick something up!
Also, do yourself a favour and get some house smoked bacon while you’re there. It’s so flavourful you’ll find yourself spoiled for any other bacon in your life!

This is a good quality, local butcher shop. The kind where people who know about meat can shop and get what they want. It’s also the kind where people who want to learn about meat can go and be shown how to shop for meat.
I like the fresh cut pork shoulder butt for braising, skirt steak for spicy grilling, fresh ground pork and beef of various fat contents for perfect meatballs and burgers.
Beefway shows that a neighbourhood butcher is still a great modern place to buy good meat.

Well I wasn’t sure I would like Beefway, because their décor is very plain. Also I’m a lapsing vegan, so I feel guilty entering meat-​only establishments.
HOWEVER I was very impressed once I saw and smelled how fresh everything is, and how helpful the staff are. This is the old-​fashioned real deal.
Beefway has all kinds of cuts like brisket and shank that are grandma-​approved, and taste great without killing your bank account if you know how to cook slowly. They even have some natural/​free range chicken and hormone free beef. They have lamb. They have tongue (it seems to be getting more popular, and after tasting it done by La Taqueria I’m thinking of trying to make it myself). They have turkey and sausage and even cold cuts and cuts of beef so you could make your own.
Everything is weighed as you watch, you are asked if you would like a custom cut, and then wrapped in brown paper at the time. The soup bones are to die for — they are actually meaty enough that you can have soup without adding extra meat. The staff are not pretentious (! so great !) and there is NO strong bleachy smell or off meaty smell, and everyone is in a hairnet and looks busy.
Also, they have fantastic pet food that they make from beef heart and ground beef, which has really perked up my cat and smells much better than canned food, at half the price. He also licks his dish after eating it and has stopped meowing after cans like an overfed catfood obsessed monster with this food. I think there must be something very addictive in canned food, the way he behaves, but miraculously Beefway’s regular ground beef based pet food has made him sweet and reasonable again so he no longer wakes me at 4 and 5 am frantic for his canned fix. For $ 1.99/lb (late 2010!!) I don’t need therapy or an afternoon nap… so great.
If only their hours were longer, and they had some frozen grass fed local beef or organic meat of any kind, I would give them five stars.

People who say there are no butchers must be insane, or else they haven’t gone to Beefway. People who say the butchers get driven away by the supermarkets must be insane, or else they haven’t been to Beefway. I lived a block away from this store for nearly a year, and together with the discount bread store Mcgavins next door they kept me well fed for very very cheap.
Not only does Beefway have better deals on their meat cuts than any supermarket (especially if you buy over 5lbs), but they grind it, cut it, or fillet it in front of you. For an idea of their prices, their ground beef ranges from $ 1.75 regular to $ 3.99 extra lean, fresh and ground that day. You can ask for a specific cut, or take one of theirs displayed at the counter. No pre wrapped in cellophane and styrofoam portions in a fridge over night at the supermarket! And try their fresh bacon! Its impossible to compare!
There is rarely a crowd, except on the weekends, but they close early. When busy expect quite a line, as their service is not exactly built for speed.
In short, eat meat here! You beautiful omnivorous species.