Food

Meet your local butcher: Curtis Stone

In the May/June issue of Selector Magazine, celebrity chef Curtis Stone talks about opening up his own butcher shop in Los Angeles. "It is a pretty special joint," says Curtis, laconically. "Something I always missed in LA was a great butcher shop, and when I say great butcher shop, I mean one that sources game, does whole animal butchery and has different cuts.

But don't think Curtis has completely lost his marbles. The Butcher Shop is part of his new restaurant Gwen, on Sunset Boulevard. Gwen is all at once, a restaurant, a cocktail bar, a patio hang-out, and a butcher shop.

"My idea was, if you've got a butcher shop and a restaurant, then you can create a use for anything you buy in. I was just in the shop cutting some pheasant terrine for a customer. We bought that pheasant in two days ago and I turned it into a terrine, which I can sell in the shop or in the restaurant. So you never waste anything."

In the May/June issue of Selector Magazine, celebrity chef Curtis Stone talks about opening up his own butcher shop in Los Angeles.

Get Curtis Stone's 80 day dry-aged ribeye with creamed corn and charred scallions recipe in the May/June issue of ​Selector​ 

A highlight of the butcher shop is beef from Australian producer David Blackmore. But to get this world renowned Wagyu to the States has been no easy task.

"When I first spoke to David I said, 'I want to buy some of your meat for the butcher shop.' He said, 'Nah, the only way I could make sense of it is if you were to become the distributor.' I didn't want to be a distributor of meat! But I loved it, so I said, 'We'll figure it out.' So here we are, 'Stones Meat Distributors'. But we are selling so much of David's Wagyu, people are just absolutely in love with it."

Read the full story in the May/June issue of Selector, out now, with Curtis Stone on the cover.