Axons Butchers

Very good and the best day to go is late of a Thursday, for those in the know this is the day they make sausages and they make the lesser known sausages later in the day, I am a big fan of both the Italian and the pork and black pudding sausages. I am also a fan of there smoked dry cured streaky and back bacon (to be fair unsmoked bacon is pointless in my opinion).
Although they are a little pricer than other independent butchers in the area, they by far have the best knowledge and are highly skilled. They will order in pretty much anything you want too, always worth asking even if it is an rare meat.

This meat shop is as good as it gets. It’s a local meat purveyor with a friendly and knowledgeable staff that really knows their product. The first time I went was with my daughter, who lives in the area. We dropped by to get sausage for bangers and mash. She told the man what she was making for dinner and asked him to suggest a sausage. We came away with a peppered sausage that was some of the best I have ever had… and I’m not really a fan of sausage at all.
The next day, we made a beeline for Axons to buy beef for fajitas. I already knew what I wanted so I took the time to check out the contents of the meat case. The selection was extensive and made my imagination go wild with the possibilities! If you live in the area or somewhat close, take a drive to check it out. It is located in an area that is quaint and has lots of shops and restaurants. Worth checking out.

When I have all the money in the world and I don’t have to eat bashed-​up, out-​of-​date ready meals I find in the Asda ‘Woops!’ section I will buy all my meat from here. Bloody fillet steaks, dark marbled venison and yellowy corn-​fed chicken breasts. I will spend hundreds of pounds every time I come here and when I do come here I will be so swollen up with lovely delicious meat that I’ll have to ride in on a specially reinforced mobility scooter.
The quality of the cuts on offer at Axons is really fantastic, all locally sourced and the range is (as has been Unilocaled on before) extensive. The sausages are the real jewel in the crown here though (a crown of meat products; that is what the future me will wear when I ride victorious into Axons for my weekly ration) and there are some delicious variations from the simple cracked black pepper to intriguing Italian mozzarella. It is all you would expect from a butcher’s that has won national sausage awards. Maybe they’ll let me judge the national sausage awards when I have all the money in the world. I wonder if they’ll let me wear my crown of meat?

Meat, meat, lovely meat. Meat to eat, meat meat meat.
I adore meat. Love it. Can’t get enough of it. And I respect it too. That means that I am loath to rely on the anaemic slabs of water-​pumped, antibiotic-​addicted chicken that line the fridges of Messrs Tesco and Saino. Yeah, I’ll use them if they’re going to be smothered and pulverised in a slow-​cooked stew or curry. But if I’m braising a lamb shank or searing a fillet steak, I want quality.
Axons, my friends, is quality. There’s no denying it. Back when I lived in ye olde Didsy-​B, I would scrape my pennies and every now and then I’d pop to Axons and treat myself to a particularly plump breast of corn-​fed chicken, or a devastatingly juicy sirloin. The venison on offer here (seasonably, obvio) is truly incredible. Dense, dark and just that right amount of dank pungency. I honestly haven’t had venison that good since I ate at a weird hunting lodge in teh Czech Republic. I am actually salivating right now, imagining that meat.
The meat here is obviously more expensive than at the supermarket, but not prohibitively so. Expect to pay about a quid more for your workaday meats such as mince, but seeing as their mince has less fat and crap in it, you’re getting about twice as much real meat. When it comes to meat, you get what you pay for, so please pay for the good stuff. Your tummy will thank you (even if Bambi doesn’t…)

The ‘best butchers in Manchester’ comment is one I must dispute, but I can confirm that Axons is certainly an excellent butchers, well deserving of its five stars.
The selection is nothing short of unbelievable. They have every type of meat you can think of and almost every cut you can imagine too. The sausages are the speciality, and the range here is amazing, but that’s not to say the rest is not as fantastic. Their streaky bacon is probably the tastiest and juiciest I have ever tasted. I like the comment about it being a little Sweeney Todd, and it does look like an authentic 19^th century butchers, but it also looks extremely clean and well organized. The quality is amazing.
Further to my opening comment that it isn’t quite the best butchers in Manchester. Withington butchers, a few doors down from The Co-​Operative just pips it for me. They’ve a similar selection and though not quite as varied, it is cheaper, and they also do hot bacon and sausage barms to take away. Still, it’s a close one, and Axons is definitely up there in the running for the title of the King of Butchers.

Though ladled with the unenviable title of ‘award winning sausage maker’ Axons Butchers have got no beef with anybody.
Excuse the hammy jokes but this place really is making mince meat out of the competition at the minute.
Whilst there is definitely something a little Sweeney Todd about the old style shop front, there really is no need to be chicken, the staff are extremely friendly and all too keen to help you plan out what you’ll need or a dinner party or special meal.

This is by far the best butchers in Manchester. The meat here is unbelievably scrumptious and will get you loads of brownie points if you serve it up to those nearest and dearest.
If you buy one thing here buy some of their famous SAUSAGES! These guys have won lots of awards at the British Sausage Awards so they make nothing but the best and have a variety of specialist flavours.
Make your brekkie/​lunch/​dinner interesting and head down here, the staff are soooo friendly also and will give you loads of advice on how to cook things in a way that does their food justice.