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July 2, 2015
Tackle a Tomahawk at The Butchershop Bar and Grill.
Tackle a Tomahawk at The Butchershop Bar and Grill.

For the last five years, The Butchershop Bar & Grill has been on a mission to serve Glasgow the best possible steak.

Featuring meat from grass-fed Black Angus and Limousin cattle, reared in the Borders by John Gilmour and in Ayrshire at Cairnhill Farms, their beef-based offer has won multiple awards.

Recently, they have turned the dial up to eleven and have started to sell a new premium range of colossal Scotch steaks. Called Cuts on the Bone, they are designed for sharing, although the occasional carnivorous adventurer has tried to go solo.

Grass-fed Scotch beef

Ranging in size from 700g to 2kg, there are four Cuts on the Bone: a well marbled sirloin; a super tender fillet; the Porterhouse, which has fillet on one side of the bone and sirloin on the other, plus the Tomahawk, an awe-inspiring hunk of rib-eye steak cooked on a two foot long bone.

All four are hung on the bone in their own Butchershop dry-aging room at Cairnhill Farm in Girvan. The farm’s fourth-generation master butcher hangs the grass-fed Scottish beef for 45 to 50 days.

The longer you age steak, the more moisture it loses. This helps intensify the flavour but also means it loses weight and therefore value. As a result, most supermarket steak is hung for two to three weeks at most.

At The Butchershop, their classic and signature cut steaks are hung for 21 to 35 days. The extra long, 45 day dry-aging process means that the meat develops an even deeper, richer flavour and tenderness.

A Porterhouse: steak and fillet, best of both worlds.
A Porterhouse: steak and fillet, best of both worlds.

Enhanced flavour

Butchershop Head Chef, John Molloy explains:

‘As a chef you want to work with the best produce in the world and this is as good as it gets. These cuts are phenomenal. The flavour from the fillet on the bone is like nothing you’ve ever tasted. Scotch fillet steak would normally be aged from 21 up to 28 days whereas with a fillet on the bone cut, the bone allows the meat to be aged for 45 days resulting in an unsurpassed enhanced flavour.’

Speaking about the new Cuts On The Bone steaks, James Rusk, owner of The Butchershop Bar & Grill and the Grade A Listed dining venue Hutchesons Bar & Brasserie, says:

‘Scotland is renowned for having the best beef in the world, and we wanted to heighten that reputation and create something truly spectacular for our customers and visitors to Scotland to experience.

‘For many years, we have worked very closely with Cairnhill Farms. They are real experts. Between the two companies, we’ve experimented a lot with different lengths of aging and different aging processes. We’ve found that with a 45 to 50 day aging, you get that beefy flavour and the tenderness that you want. Our customers are absolutely loving it.’

Win a Cuts on the Bone dinner for 2

Tempted?

Along with 5pm, The Butchershop Bar & Grill are offering a Cuts on the Bone meal for two.

The prize comprises a choice of starter each, followed by a Porterhouse steak sharer for two with four sides or sauces, complemented with a bottle of house red or white wine. All finished off with a choice of desserts.

To be entered in the competition, please comment on this Facebook post telling us your favourite cut of steak.

Good luck!

Terms

  1. The competition closes at midnight on the 15th July 2015. The winners will be notified the following week.
  2. 5pm.co.uk’s decision shall be final and binding in all respects on all entrants. No correspondence will be entered into. There will only be one winner.
  3. Prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and non-negotiable. There is no cash alternative.
  4. No purchase is necessary to enter this competition.
  5. The prize(s) are non-transferrable and subject to availability.
  6. Winner will be randomly picked from Facebook comments.
  7. Limited availability on Friday or Saturday nights.
  8. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer.
  9. The prize has 12 month’s validity from the date the winner is announced
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