Eat-Sum-More

Great price great food. Best biltong in the city. Freshly made out their own store I can go back every time for more.

Its good and they carry what I am looking for. They have all the SA goodies. Jams, chocolates, «biscuits» (cookies). Don’t care for the boerewors there — its better at Florence Meats. They carry most everything that reminds me of childhood.

This is a South African butcher and specialty shop. My buddy notes that the store is «so South African it’s scary.» I hunted down this shop for him (he’s from Capetown) who was feeling a bit homesick for biltong (meat that’s cured a particular way). His particular preference is for wet (vs dry) and lean (vs fatty) sliced biltong. Pronouncing it «very good» my buddy ended up leaving the store a happy man.
The women who run the shop were very friendly and also gave us samples of a few types of jerky while chatting up my friend about the politics of home. All the jerky and biltong is made in house — and according to the owner, with Canadian beef but with spices from South Africa. The one woman who started the store in 2003 said her family also had butcher shops in South Africa. In addition to the jerky and biltong, the store also stocks all types of sauces, condiments, crackers, drinks and other miscellaneous products form South Africa including (to the great delight of my friend) Red Grapetizer (a drink).
I can’t say that I have much of a reference point, but the jerky was pretty good and I liked the biltong — which is like ham but a bit chewier and with a bit of a deeper flavor (sorry if that’s a blasphemous description to biltong aficionados). At a cost of $ 58/​kg, we picked up half a kilo (which, according to my friend isn’t that different than what it might cost in South Africa). I’ll definitely be back if not on my own, definitely with my friend — which, given its location relative to the painful drive from downtown is saying something.