Thursday, October 16, 2008
Good advice OMG of the Week: Roast with the Most
Posted by Nicki Wood on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM
This is a sirloin tip roast, like the label says. But it's not just an ordinary roast. It's from Robert Regg, a quirky family-run business that's one of Nashville's tiny handful of federally inspected, HACCP-compliant meat processing plants. (You'd be shocked, but strangely relieved, at the masses of compliance paperwork involved.)
And it's USDA graded "choice," not the "select" grade stocked in supermarkets. (Costco sells choice-grade meat.) Choice meat is lusciously marbled, and you could just cart this little nugget home and cut it into 12 one-pound sirloin steaks. Some will be more tender than others, but all of them could be fajitas or kebabs. For $60. I haven't done it yet; I'm just sayin'. If you do it, report back to Bites.
Robert Regg Meats, 621 Middleton. 244-1945. Opening hours vary, so call first.
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I love this place. For years, they've been great about getting me odd cuts, special requests and volume orders of great quality. When I need veal bones for stock, they find them. When I need 24 shanks for osso bucco, they find beautiful, uniform, 5-inch-thick pieces. I've never been disappointed. And be sure to check out the photo on the wall from when their shop was in the basement of the old city courthouse on town square.
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I used to work in a grocery store and all our cuts were choice, except tenderloins. However, this was in a family run chain in Wisconsin.
Can't speak to what Krog's or Pub's stock.
Wow, that sounds like something you could share with your CSA partners.
I'm just sayin'...
Remember who it was that pointed you in Regg's direction when you sent up the butcher signal after Todd's went udders up.
What does Publix sell? I thought they were a 'choice' retailer as well. Their meat is hands down better than Kroger.
Jim welcome to my humble home. I miss your reviews, too, but frankly, without you around as competition, my s**t writing looks better.
Regg is amazing -- they're going to cut up my ham this year!
CeeElCee, I say let's buy that sirloin tip and sizzle it up!
Thanks Fluffer and BP (whoever you are). And Tobin, where did you work, Sendik's?
i called them looking for calves liver and i had to buy like the whole liver. i called them for veal bones and no go... so i had to mail order my veal bones from snooks in missouri.
I called them a few years back looking for a tri-tip and got a long lecture about how they don't ship them West of Nevada to save them all for Californians and there's only one per cow anyway and they could never order such a thing and nobody out here even knows what they are anyway. I resisted the sudden urge to point out this was a local call and that I had previously obtained three at Costco, and instead thanked them for their 'service' and hung up. Glad to know they help someone, but I had no luck that day.
