Blockman

Beef that has waited thirty-five days

A butchery and cold room on Rooibok Street, Silverton. Cut in the morning, packed cold, on the bakkie every Friday.

See the counter

Thursday, four o'clock, is the cut-off

Orders in by Thursday afternoon go out cold on Friday morning across Pretoria, Centurion and Midrand. Anything after that you are welcome to collect at the shop.

Order for Friday
Cut this morning
Cut this morning
Aged 35 days
Aged 35 days
Packed cold
Packed cold
Delivered Friday
Delivered Friday

Thirty-five days in the cold room

Whole rumps and sirloins hang on the bone in our own cold room at one degree, fan running, nothing wrapped around them. Thirty-five days later the outside is a hard dry crust that we cut away and throw out, and what is left underneath is darker, drier and worth every gram we lost. That is the whole reason a rump from here costs what it does and tastes nothing like the one in the fridge aisle.

The counter

Lamb SosatiesBraai packsLamb SosatiesR179.00Choose a size

Who is behind the block

Gerrit Nel breaks the carcasses and Thandi Mokoena runs the counter and the order book. Between them they have been cutting meat for thirty-one years, most of it on this street. The bakkie leaves Silverton at six on a Friday morning, and everything on it was cut on Thursday.

Come to the shop, or phone it through

12 Rooibok Street, Silverton, Pretoria Tuesday to Friday, 7am to 5pm. Saturday, 7am to 1pm. 012 803 6144 counter@blockman.co.za

Phone the counter: 012 803 6144

Half of what goes out on a Friday was ordered over the phone by somebody who has never opened this page. Tell us what you want and how thick, and we cut it that morning.

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