Taste the best of British meat at Leeds, London and Bath

If you are planning a visit to one of the Taste festivals taking place around the country in the next few weeks, make sure you look out for Broad Stripe Butchers (broadstripebutchers.co.uk). The UK’s favourite online butcher will be exhibiting at A Taste of Leeds (5-8June), A Taste of London (19-22 June) and A Taste of Bath (3-6 July). You will be able to sample the company’s delicious sausages (plain and herb varieties) plus gourmet mini burgers, and most importantly of all, cubes of Casterbridge fillet steak.

Look out for the aptly dressed team – they will be wearing smart blue and white striped aprons and straw boaters. And, at each show, by visiting the Broad Stripe Butchers stand, you will have the chance to win a meal for two to the value of £250 at one of the restaurants exhibiting at the show.

Casterbridge grain fed beef is one of the most talked-about brands at the moment – it features by name on many of the country’s top menus, including Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant at Terminal 5 – Plane Food. It was also chosen by Jason Atherton of Maze in preference to the supplied fillet steak for his winning dish in The Great British Menu. Jason serves Casterbridge beef at Maze Grill, one of London’s hottest new recent restaurant openings. Casterbridge beef is only available in restaurants or by purchasing online from Broad Stripe Butchers.

Broad Stripe Butchers is so named because, traditionally, the wider the stripe on a butcher’s apron, the more senior the butcher. The sister company of top catering supplier Fairfax Meadow, which has been serving our top restaurants for over 25 years, Broad Stripe Butchers supplies meat of exactly the same quality as that prepared by top chefs such as Brian Turner at the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair, Michel and Alain Roux at the Waterside Inn, Mark Edwards at Nobu, and Paul Gayler…to name but a few.

All the meat is British and as well as adhering to the ‘Quality Standard’ marks from the English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX) and British Quality Assured Pork (BQAP), the company supplies meat under the ‘Red Tractor’ scheme managed by Assured Food Standards and ‘Free-Range’ criteria. It is supplied from carefully selected local farms, spanning the Cornish coast to the Scottish highlands – from farms which adhere to the highest standards of animal welfare and top quality feed.

It is much easier for the home cook to produce gourmet standard meals when they have access to the premium quality meats that leading chefs use. In addition to superior quality beef, all cuts of meat are available on the site, from larder-trimmed sirloin steaks to French-trimmed oven-ready five bone fore-ribs through to whole, oven-ready pheasant, partridge, guinea fowl, quail and Gressingham duck. If a special cut of meat is needed and not already available on the site, just contact the company

Broadstripebutchers.co.uk.