I second Haymarket area - Puritan Beef Co. 90 Blackstone St. My Jamaican coworker buys her goat there. I've tried a sample of her cooking and it's delish.
There are 3 Haymarket vendors with goat. They have the widest choice, but tend to higher prices (worth it, says I) Save A Lot, America's Food Basket always has it. Price Rite often does. The latter two tend to the very bony cuts; in fairness though goat meat tends to be bony and Caribbean folk enjoy sucking on the bone.
If you are nice to the Blackstone Street halal guys, they can sell you meatier cuts, at a premium. The bony standard is fine for goat stews. Those are our family favorite.
Expect to pay $6 or more per pound.
Oh, and at Food Basket, there's often a $3 or $4 a pound "mutton." In reality, that is a fattier goat in the packages there, but perfectly good for for stews and slow stir fries.It requires some skimming but is very flavorful.
However, he will cut it up for you (ribs, chops, ground, etc) and it freezes really well. He'll even throw in the head if you were making Birria. Damn, now I'm hungry.
I often see meat in the grocery store labeled "Cut Up Goat", yet I never see "Cut Up Cow" or "Cut Up Chicken".
Is there something particular about "cut up" goat that doesn't apply to other animals? Otherwise, I it just makes me think of a goat that's good at telling jokes.
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Tropical Foods
I'd second Tropical's in Dudley. It looks pretty decent too, but I haven't actually tried it.
Cheemas Brighton
One of the best little butcher shops in the city for chicken and goat. Halal too.
Pretty sure I saw it before
Pretty sure I saw it before at Americas Food Basket on Hyde Park ave
Puritan Beef Company
I second Haymarket area - Puritan Beef Co. 90 Blackstone St. My Jamaican coworker buys her goat there. I've tried a sample of her cooking and it's delish.
Chelsea MB
Market Basket in Chelsea should have it
goats everywhere
There are 3 Haymarket vendors with goat. They have the widest choice, but tend to higher prices (worth it, says I) Save A Lot, America's Food Basket always has it. Price Rite often does. The latter two tend to the very bony cuts; in fairness though goat meat tends to be bony and Caribbean folk enjoy sucking on the bone.
If you are nice to the Blackstone Street halal guys, they can sell you meatier cuts, at a premium. The bony standard is fine for goat stews. Those are our family favorite.
Expect to pay $6 or more per pound.
Oh, and at Food Basket, there's often a $3 or $4 a pound "mutton." In reality, that is a fattier goat in the packages there, but perfectly good for for stews and slow stir fries.It requires some skimming but is very flavorful.
Mutton is not necessarily goat.
If you're from the Caribbean, you mean goat meat when you say "mutton." If you're from Western Europe you mean sheep meat.
Goat rarely is fatty. If you see significant fat on it, and it's labelled Mutton: it's sheep meat.
Quality Meat Market in Rosi,
Quality Meat Market in Rosi, I think.
You have to buy half the goat.
However, he will cut it up for you (ribs, chops, ground, etc) and it freezes really well. He'll even throw in the head if you were making Birria. Damn, now I'm hungry.
Tom Brady's house, yeah?
He's the G.O.A.T.
Wegmans?
Wegmans?
(not the Chestnut Hill one)
Pier Fish Co
Pier Fish Co in Newmarket has also carried goat in their freezer.
Village Market in Rozzie
Almost always has goat.
Cut Up Goat?
I often see meat in the grocery store labeled "Cut Up Goat", yet I never see "Cut Up Cow" or "Cut Up Chicken".
Is there something particular about "cut up" goat that doesn't apply to other animals? Otherwise, I it just makes me think of a goat that's good at telling jokes.
What about kosher goat? Any
What about kosher goat? Any leads (not Butcherie)
Several Halal markets mentioned
Would that do for you?
GOAT
America's Food Basket, Mattapan
Mayflower Poultry
I saw somebody walking out of Mayflower Poultry on Cambridge St in Cambridge carrying an entire skinned goat, so I'd imagine you can get it there!
Foodland on Mass Ave in Cambridge
They sell both fresh and frozen halal meat in the basement.