About Us
Every meat lover’s dream is to walk into a classic butcher shop that makes him feel like home and provides them with their favorite cuts, freshly carved… That’s what we’re striving to accomplish: a cozy place that you enjoy walking into, where we will satisfy your need for high quality meats!
Our Story
Our boutique butcher shop has its’ roots deep in the Eastern European traditional way of handling, salting, smoking and curing meats. Our presence in the US has caused us to adapt this style in such a way that would allow us to best serve a wide range of cultures and their different requirements regarding “meat-carving” and Charcuterie. To make it simple, we provide many options for the different cuts of meats.
We work with beef primal cuts and sub primal cuts, as well as pork and lamb, so that you can have that special cut that might be difficult to find in a regular supermarket or grocery store. If you don’t see it displayed, ask for it and we will do our best to get it for you on a regular basis or just once. Our quality of meats range from ungraded commodity meats to grass fed Prime Beef hormone free.
Grocery
European products chosen carefully so you can leave our store with a smile on your face.
We have created a menu using the finest seasonal produce. Table service available for all food and drinks.
Goodies is a sophisticated, yet simple and traditional retreat, amidst the frenzy of the big city. When you set your foot inside our store, the look, the smell, the atmosphere will set you back into a cozy time in history. Unwind, relax and enjoy all we have to offer.
We are proud to serve the finest meats delicately spiced, grilled and slow roasted according to family recipes passed down for generations.
Butchery & Meat carving
We do the meat cutting, grinding, stuffing, salting, curing and smoking all inside the shop right in front of your eyes to emphasize our commitment to quality and transparency.
Beef
Pork
Lamb
Chicken
Charcuterie
Traditional, artisan meat products from Romania, Hungary, Italy
Our shop proudly presents a wide variety of artisan meat products like hams, sausages, pastrami, salami, pate, headcheese , etc., that are either made, cured and smoked inside the butchery or shopped from carefully selected locations. Our primary influences are from East Europe, Italy, Great Britain and Bavaria.
In the world of specialty foods, charcuterie is the latest trend that is front and center in Los Angeles. If you have never heard of charcuterie before, it is French for cooked flesh. It is most commonly known as a plate of cold, cooked meats. Before it became a staple of specialty foods, it was a way to preserve meats before refrigeration. Now, there is a style of cooking solely devoted to prepared cured meat products, that unleashes the flavors that make you come back for more.
Making sausages
The art of making sausages
Our signature product is our sausage. You will find some of the most famous recipes done in our shop, have been infused with a personal twist. We have adopted many traditional recipes that contain “secret ingredients” that have been passed on for generations through word of mouth. The sausages that we are making are done right in front of your eyes from fresh and carefully selected meats and with natural ingredients and spices that you can easily pronounce, like salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, etc. Taste our home made Romanian sausage and you’ll find it amongst the best you have ever had.
The origins of meat preservation are lost to the ages but probably began when humans began to realize the preservative value of salt. Sausage making originally developed as a means to preserve and transport meat.
Primitive societies learned that dried berries and spices could be added to dried meat. By 600-500 BC there is mention of sausages from China, Rome and Greece. The procedure of stuffing meat into casings remains basically the same today, but sausage recipes have been greatly refined and sausage making has become a highly respected culinary art.