Butcher
David Lidgate is the 4th generation of his family to run Lidgate's Butchers in Holland Park, W11. With the help of his son Danny, all our free range and organic meat, poultry and game is selected by hand. Organic suppliers include Highgrove, the Home farm of HRH The Prince of Wales and Gatcomb Park, the Home Farm of the Princess Royal.
All the products we make here are from our own meat including our sausages, pies and hams. All are made by hand on the premises daily in small batches – we make no concessions to mass production.
We have won the National Pie Championship. Pies, sausages and home made products particularly contributed to our win of the Best in Britain Award at the latest European Championship – Concours Nationaux Professionnels 2007. We have also recently won 9 Gold medals at the Smithfield Awards. Both our sausages and pies were major medal winners at the April 2007 Foodex Exhibition with our new Cumberland & Wild Garlic sausage being particularly successful. Our pies are made daily on the premises – 3 to 16 portions and we can very often make large pies while customers wait – within 15 minutes.
Our organic chickens are reared with care – they are free to roam in open unfenced fields and take themselves back into their houses at night! Our Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys include those uniquely reared in natural woodlands. They feed on natural grain and oats with woodland flora and fauna supplemented with wild blackberries, earthworms!, their favourite - natural nettles and a sprinkling of wild chestnuts. A healthy and ‘happy’ turkey is the result. A return to the flavour David Lidgate’s great grandfather, the founder of the company, knew. We are Turkey Butcher of the Year 2007.
Our lamb comes from the West Country and Berkshire Downs in the Spring and gradually moves north until we have the new season heather fed organic Autumn lamb from the Shetland Islands.
Our beef benefits from 5 generations of experience. Beef suppliers include Judith Freane, The Soil Association Beef Champion and selected farmers from the Highlands of Scotland.
Our main assets are our experience and what we learn from our customers.
