Salama Halal Meat

Super nice customers service. They have all kind meat you luking for. Neat and clean store, i want to make goat curry the guy name Jafar he is superb he help me out and explain me which part of goat be good to cook and cut it good piece of meat price was cheap it’s was great experience thanks Jafar…

Great butcher! Fresh, really well priced. Lots of cheap spices and middle eastern goods and a decent bread selection.

Very good prices and selections from every country —
My nice customer request story from the market –
There was a sister that used to cut (with scissors) chicken skin into strips and flour and deep fry them as a snack for her kids and then serve the chicken breast skinless… I was at the market one day and saw skinless chicken breast and asked the brother what he did with the skins, he said, ‘it goes back to the farms’…I asked could I buy a bag of skins, he told me to come back next week… I came back he gave me about 5 lbs of skins for a few dollars… lol… I thought great idea, who doesn’t love the skin of fried chicken (cha ching — the halal alternative to pork rinds!!!) — it is a great novelty for about 5 strips or so… and then after that your stomach feels like lead when all that fat from the skins settles… in sha Allah… lol — The brothers there are always nice and respectful to the sisters with minimum contact…

Selection was decent but freshness was terrible. Decided to try them out as I am new to the neighborhood. The ground beef was a little funky, not sure what they where grounding, but serviceable. The worse however was the chicken quarters I bought. When I pulled the chicken out of the fridge 2 days, less than 48 hours, later they smelled horrid, insta-​gag.
Go somewhere else for your meat as this place obviously doesn’t care about having fresh products.

Good place if you come at the right time. If they are butchering, take your pick out of the fresh parts. Decent quality and fresh when I was there. I would not really come for much else though, the grocery seems a bit dated and nothing looked particularly good in the window.
You want whole lamb butchered to your specs? Just ask.

Friendly. Reasonably priced. Has other stuff like Indian spices, rice, groceries etc.

I went to this place to get some goat meat for the curry I want to cook, the guy had no knowledge at all and gave me meat with 60% fat on it, after asking him what he has done he replaced with leg meat with 50+ % of bones, imagine you taking BONES of goat at a price of 9 $ per pound, IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN BUYING MEAT DON’T GO HERE! Chances are you will be disappointed.

These folks are nice, but its a meat market, so I realize that I digressed :)
The meat is really good too. Also if you call them ahead of time they will have your order ready for you.
I have tried a few different types of bread from here too, and so far I have not been disappointed.

They have all of my basics: goat and lamb meat, cut to order; ghee; lebne and olives.

Love this place — have been coming here for 5 years. Meat is always fresh, and their prices are so affordable! Best place to get meat in the area. As a bonus, there’s a whole extra section of middle eastern groceries — high quality couscous, grape leaves to make dolmas, sauces, etc. Don’t miss their homemade lamb merguez sausages!

All buyers! Please be aware of expiring products, we talking about more than year expiring, some products are expired on 2012, this happened to me 3 times when I went to shop there. Already informed the owners last year, but he still bring even older more expired products!

I really like this place for fresh goat meat. The store also sell a wide variety of Indian groceries, frozen food and spices and much better prices than the Indian store. I would recommend anyone who is looking to shop for Indian groceries to consider going here first before Indian store. I really like this palce for its prices and meat. :)

Every time I need some meat, I call and they have it ready with quick and efficient service. I watched them freshly grind the beef and have never had an issue with the quality as another reviewer mentioned. I do not eat exclusively halal but my mom does so whenever she comes to visit we get large orders that are very reasonably priced. The excellent value is what keeps me coming here even when I don’t need halal meat, as it is much more convenient and significantly fresher than going to a grocery store.

A few days ago i bought from them halal meat. At that time i saw the MEAT it seemed little bit bad and i asked from the guy who works there the meat is new or not. He told me that it is new and fresh meat. I am muslim guy and I thought these muslim people do not lie to me so i did not check the meat. But then I brought meat and after one day I check the meat and it was HORRIBLE and smelled so badly. So they lied to me and i think the money i gave them it is HARAM for them. They are bunch of assholes who they do not care ABOUT customers. So people do not go there and buy anything from there.

Just stopped by, the selection was a little low. But I got about 10 pounds of chicken and lamb all together and only paid 15 bucks. Can’t beat that. Also, the lamb sausage links are to die for. Really.

Only place in SF for Goat meat! They have some middle eastern breads as well. Also… helpful staff.

Finally found a halal meat store in San Francisco. Its right near all the Pakistani restaurants (Chutney, Shalimar, Karachi Classics). They have all kinds of meat (chicken, beef, goat, lamb). They have arab and desi spices and foods, frozen and non-​frozen. The store is a bit cramped up but you’ll find everything you’re looking for.
They always have chicken wings and drum sticks which is a plus for me. Plus, no debit/​credit minimum.

We just arrived from Montréal, the North American paradise of Halal, so we know what a good Halal butchery should look and feel like — and how the meat should taste like. We were happy to find Salama after a frustrated « Unilocaling» for Halal meat shops. Once there, it was a bit of a disappointment. Why? First, the meats are cut with little care for the elimination of excess fat, and the stew cuts come with odd (and potentially dangerous) sharp bits of bone. The lamb, for instance, ends up being at least a quarter pure fat. Then, Salama has just one type of marinated meat — a mix with more red peppers than anything. In Montréal, you can purchase your chicken and red meat in paprika, curry, schwarma, etc. That would be a detail, if customer service wouldn’t also be lacking. Nothing like the beautiful service we used to get from our North African expats. at Salama, the servers are Latino and know little or nothing about Halal (or are not in the mood to serve customers by sharing information). Finally, the place is small and crowded with badly displayed grocery items. We wish the owners would do a clean up, for the place can be so much more than it is! Salama needs some competition.

I went into Salama Hala Meat shop because it was next to Milan Pizza. I noticed a girl buying pita bread, I should have found out which one she bought. They had white or wheat pita bread in packaged bags.
Lots of halal meats to be cooked at home.
I got a 2lb bag of Dari couscous from Morocco. The guy told me he eats it too.
PG Tips tea from England is good, 80 count for $ 5.99 isn’t a bad price. Indian shop in Newark sells it for $ 5.49 so I can buy it there.
Diamond Bakery Baklava from Fremont sold in packages — those are yummy too.
Next time I’ll try the Harissa Du Cap Bön Tunisie small can for $ 1.50 — he told me it’s a paste & try it in a Moroccan restaurant to see if I like it.
Think he had a credit card minimum $ 10, I paid Cash.

I’m not Muslim, but I come here for goat meat because I don’t know anywhere else to find it and I make a mean goat curry. (Ultra-​expensive Ferry Building Farmer’s Market goat meat doesn’t count.) They have a great variety of spice mixtures and olives as well. Also found a British soft drink I’d been missing for a long time.
I *am* Jewish, and I’m pleased to see that this shop stocks some Israeli products. I’m of the mindset that, regardless of politics, we can all at least sit down and eat each other’s food, and that’s a good step to getting to know each other better. So, well done to this shop. I’ll be coming back frequently.