Blackface Meat Company

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The Blackface Meat Company delivers fresh, top quality lamb, mutton, beef, venison, game and pork from South Scotland and the North of England.  All our produce is seasonal and fully traceable.  We won the Gold Award with Savour the Flavours and The Taste of Britain Award for our five-year-old mutton, raised on the heather-covered hills of Scotland.

Mutton has been seeing a renaissance for the last few years, driven by TV chefs and top London restaurants. Ben’s mutton now graces the tables at The Ivy and other top restaurants in London.

“Blackface lamb is some of the most delicious I have ever tasted. The two-year-old mutton hung for a full two weeks is particularly outstanding.”  Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

The mutton is from Blackface sheep, a popular, hardy Scottish breed.  They graze a completely natural diet, eating heather, grass and blueberries on the dramatic Scottish Lowlands. We sell two- and five-year-old mutton. The two-year-old is like a well-developed lamb, though bigger and meatier.  The five-year-old needs a longer cooking time, but rewards with a more complex flavour. Both are hung for two weeks to develop the flavour and tenderise the meat.

Like all our products, our lamb and mutton is sold in boxes and delivered fresh to the customer.  We can dice or mince the meat at no extra charge.

Our fine Galloway Beef is hung for two weeks and arrives ready to put in the oven.   We specialise in aged beef from a more mature animal, naturally raised in the Scottish hills and prized for its depth of flavour.

A cross between a Tamworth and wild boar, it’s widely believed that our Iron Age Pig is as close as we can get to the ancient early domestic pig.  The animals are all free range and develop slowly in the traditional way. 

All delivery is free, and arrives chilled to your door in cool boxes with ice packs.