Tender Value Meats

Normally I wouldn’t go anywhere that had been featured on A Current Affair, but they did a bit on TCB one night because of their amazing award winning sausages. I guess ACA isn’t all about dodgy tradies and dead beat dads after all.
When I told the butcher I was looking to try a few of the sausages, suggestions started coming in from customers as well. I walked out with 5 different types (sang choy bao, Texan, spicy Italian, pork and truffle, and smoky maple). I’m still looking for Australia’s best bacon, so I grabbed some of that as well.
Overall, really good sausages. Pork truffle and Italian were my favourites. The sang choy bao tasted exactly like a sang choy bao. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether that should be a flavour enjoyed in sausage form.
A word of warning though: the ACA nutritionist mentioned that sausages aren’t an every day food and having more than 2 a day increases your chance of bad things by a milionty percentage points. Or something like that. I was too busy drooling over TCB’s sausages to really pay attention at that point.

Adam and the guys at Tender Value Meats make the best sausages ever… when you walk in they will tell you all about the new flavours and how to cook each flavour as some do have different cooking times and requirements. The Moroccan Lamb with Raisin which has won awards at the Sydney Royal show is to die for. Some of the flavours to get you thinking you need to have a BBQ are…
Sweet Chicken and Corn (voted 3^rd best in Australia)
Butter Chicken and Yoghurt
Thai Chicken Basil & Coconut Cream
Sweet Chilli Chicken and Mango
Honey Chicken & Macadamia
Lamb Mint and Rosemary
Moroccan Lamb & Raisin (Best Sausage in NSW)
Smokey Beef & Bacon
Beef Spinach & Pinenuts
Native Pepper Beef
Spicey Italian
Spanish Chorizos (Beef & Pork)
French Delux
Sundried Tomarto & Basil Beef
Kangaroo, Emu, Camel, Venison and Boerwors are also available in different flavours. There are many more varieties, the quality is great and the prices are not outrageous. So when you find yourself on the upper North shore go to Hornsby and check out Tender Value Meats, you won’t regret it.

When I am having a BBQ, this is a MUST visit butcher! The sausages here are amazing! Consistently so. (which seems to be quite rare these days).
Whether you are looking for a chicken and corn, or a more traditional lamb or beef sausages, this place should be your first port of call. Though don’t stop with a simple sausage… you must try the Moroccan. The sultanas make it simply awesome.
Often I will go in here and order 2 – 3 of each variety just so I can try them all out. Just be careful when cooking them as often the different varieties have a variety of thicknesses…