Pino’s Prime Meat Market

I am an indifferent cook, so quality meat makes a big difference. Everything is cut or trimmed to order. Pino’s supplies many of the best restaurants in lower Manhattan. Their Ham is essential to every feast. They also make wonderful Merquez (flavorful and not over spiced), boar sausage, Cervellata and hot and regular Italian sausage, all lean and delicious.
They also carry fresh Mozzarella from Joe’s Dairy, which was across the street for years.
Pino, his sons Michael and Sal and their staff are the best!

I love this place. Old school kick ass prime meats shop. Leo and the guys couldn’t be more accommodating and helpful.

Treated me great. Old school. Good prices, warm service. I wanted something a little unique and they totally hooked me up at a great price. Tiny, best experience/​sq foot in the city. If you dig real butchers and old NY charm, run, do not walk, to Pinos.

This place is AMAZING!!! If you are looking for a traditional butcher, you have come to the right place.
They have reasonable prices and the quality of meat is exceptional. Plus everyone is so nice and knowledgeable.

Very well done. Great vibe and exactly what you want from your butcher. gorgeous, quality meats. Love this place. Not to mention the service is TOP. great bunch of guys.

Daaaaaaaaa Newport Steak is the beginning, middle, and end of what you NEED to come for. The expertise of the staff and the quality of the rest of the product are why you should keep coming back.

What a great bunch of guys. I called several butchers around the area asking about a suckling pig for a dinner party I hosted for my birthday. Pino’s was, by a decent margin, the least expensive option with the shortest lead-​time. They talked be into a 22.5-pounder, even though I should have gone with my gut and got a 15-​pound pig. Even so, everyone made it such a painless process whereas a few other places made a big deal of it (7 days in advance, have to prepay in full).
It ended up being around $ 6.50 per pound whereas most other butchers were charging $ 9 – 10. Note that the price varies with the size of the pig (I was quoted $ 8 – 10 for a 10 – 15 pound pig). It smelled pretty fresh and still seemed stiff (rigor mortis?!) when I picked it up, but you always want to brine it anyway so that was perfect.

Excellente petite boucherie entre le Village et SoHo, comme on n’en fait pas ou plus. La viande est de très bonne qualité, l’accueil très sympa et les prix sont abordables pour Manhattan.

What a find.. . service is courteous and knowledgable, prices were much better than I expected for a Manhattan business, meaning I’ve paid almost twice as much for lesser quality. As far as quality, I live near a number of gourmet purveyors, but nothing beats Pinos. The steaks (shell steak and porterhouse kobe) I got were beautifully marbled and the flavor was perfect.

Simply put, the best butcher on planet earth. Family shop that serves nothing but quality — top to bottom. Prime, dry aged Steaks (go for the Kobe Porterhouse if you’re feeling flush) home made sausage, fresh killed chicken, and everything in between. They will butcher to your exact specs right in front of you. Cash only which allows them to price about 15% other comparable quality butchers. Can’t say enough about these guys — makes me feel honored to live in NYC.

What is there to say, this is a butchers butcher, truly a butcher to the stars! The finest chefs in the city come here to purchase meat for their restaurants.
And yet it remains a small neighborhood time capsule of old New York! I have been going here for years and I will not shop anywhere else, this is a part of New York culture, people from outside the city just don’t believe a place like this can exist in NYC. A family run business that goes back generations, when you enter this tiny storefront the narrow floor is covered in wood chips and you literally squeeze in, but no worry everyone behind the counter knows you by name and welcomes you with a smile and «Buena Sera»!. This is a vegans nightmare, there is Pino or one of his sons chopping or cutting prime meats on a heavily worn butcher block right before your eyes!
We order the smoked ham several times a year for holidays and events, our friends look forward to it, it is amazing!
Everything is fresh, everything cut to order!
When places like this are just fading away we are fortunate Pino’s maintains it’s charm, quality and service, it should be designated a N YC Landmark.

Defining New York’s best butcher is a matter of picking your criterion. For value I would take Biancardi in the Bronx, for selection, Cobble Hill’s Los Paisanos, for lamb and veal Astoria’s International Meat Market, and for steak Lobel’s. But for craftsmanship for the art of butchery, I would pick Pino’s. Pino’s sausages have just the right amount of fat, steaks are well trimmed but the burgers, the burgers, are superb. They hold their shape and have wonderful mouth feel. The lamb burgers add just the right level of heat and spice. If the store sold nothing else it would be worth the trip. Pino’s artistry was best revealed the day I asked for a rib roast. I was offered a choice of dry aged or Piedmontese beef. I plumped for the latter. A slab of beautiful bacon was hand trimmed and then machine sliced. The lean yet tender roast wrapped, tied, seasoned with garlic and pepper. Leaner and more flavorful than a regular prime rib it was the star of our Thanksgiving. I second the motion Pino’s is the best butcher in New York.

Great butchers. Moved from London to NYC and the guys behind the counter helped out with the weight conversions from KG to lbs and a whole bunch of questions I had. The quality of the meat and cuts is fantastic.
The price is also excellent too, far cheaper than the likes of whole foods with the same if not better quality.
I always like to have a ‘go to’ butcher rather than putting my $$ in the pockets of large chain/​corporations. Should do as much as possible to support these types of businesses.
Give these guys a go, you’ll be more than impressed.

My go to butcher. While I obviously love his cuts, I think the thing that separates pino are his sausages, pinwheels, braccioles, and other italian specialties. Also his pre-​pattied bacon and cheese burger are out of this world. I was literally a tail-​gate god this past season showing up with 10 skewered pinwheels from pinos every week.

Thank God For Pino’s and a few other old school places left in the neighborhood.
–Great Meats!
–Chicken cutlets, veal cutlets cut by hand and pounded out on the beautifully warped butcher blocks
–Great Wild boar sausage, braccioles and everything else
–Pino or his Son will tell you how to cook everything properly

Favorite butchers in NY, I never leave there without getting hooked up in some capacity.

One of New York’s best Butchers, and Italian and over 100 years old at that. Great cuts of Prime Meats. Love the sausages and especially the Newport Steak, it’s awesome.

Amazing meats, and everyone is always so helpful. I come regularly for steaks, sausages, and prosciutto. They take cash only but their prices are so reasonable, espcially given the quality. I love that I have «my» butcher, the way we do it in Europe.

Old school charm that sells great tasting meats at a reasonable price. I walked in and got 2 filet mignons, a grass feed rib eye steak, and 1lbs of london broil. All total it cost me $ 60. I was recommended to Pinos after a friend told me about them because I was complaining about the quality of the meat at my grocery store. (flavorless, and tough). I unknowingly ordered all the steaks assuming I would be able to pay with a credit card. After a chuckle from the butcher he pointed me to the nearest ATM where I took $ 60 in cash. The cool thing was I was short a few bucks and the guy was like «…today I buy you coffee, tomorrow you buy me coffee» and handed over my order. That sold me. Great customer service, old school feel, and quality product will make me a regular here.

Good prices, good meat. They grind hamburger to order (cool), cut up extra steaks to order, do a lot of your order to order. The only thing we haven’t loved is the chicken, but we liked it. We just didn’t love it the way we love the Newport steak and pork (braised beautifully!).
CASH ONLY!

Pino is the best, straight up. Here’s the video of our encounter: