Lord Jeff’s Beef Place

Great bang for your buck! I agree with the other reviewers, the entrance/​road leading to the place is not very commercial/​visually noticeable, but once inside, you immediately get a sense of community. The workers are down to earth and their mission is to help you– super friendly staff. You feel good after shopping here knowing you’ve helped support a local business and not to mention get great deals on all sorts of cuts of meats to your liking. I like their pork belly here and they cut it to how I like it.

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I came here on a lark, between brunch in Chinatown and a later BBQ that I’d promised to bring burgers for. It’s not exactly beautiful décor inside, but certainly clean and fairly easy to find anything you want in there. Anyway, I bought 20 burger patties, 8 hotdogs, and buns/​rolls for $ 17. I think that’s a pretty decent deal. Looked like they had a good supply of bulk size sauces and condiments as well. Also a lot of cheap meat entrails/​byproducts/​etc if you’re into that sort of thing. So, I hail thee, Lord Jeff, I’d definitely return if I had a need for large quantities of meat.

I would like to start by giving myself some credit. It took me 4 drive by peeks at the store front last Saturday morning before i mustered up the courage to park the car (club secured to the steering wheel and radio faceplate locked in the glove box) and walk into this place, but i eventually did. It was no easy task, but seeing the large clear plastic bags full of anywhere from 5−20lbs of miscellaneous meat in the hands of exiting patrons assured me i was definitely in the right place. I knew i would find the 10+ lb beef brisket i set out to procure.
The store front in on a loading dock in the industrial restaurant supply area that is New Market Square and seems unfriendly, but actually has a nice sense of community inside between the employees and regular customers. The outside is dirty, run down, and despite meat being the predominant item for sale, it doesn’t say butcher shop or Lots of meat over here! anywhere on the outside. If it wasn’t for Brian D. bellow providing the reassurance that they do in fact sell animal parts (not human kidneys and hearts or something) i never would have gone inside. Although I’m sure they do sell kidneys and hearts, they just probably come from animals.
Anyway, freshly cut slab bacon seemed to me the most popular item in the place as it had it’s own dedicated line. It looked meaty and well cured and delicious, but i had bigger plans in mind so i headed for the back counter. I spoke with one of the butchers right after he sliced up 50 pounds of pork chops for the women in front of me, and although he wasn’t sure at first, after a few minutes of digging through stacks of beef, pork and chicken pieces he emerged from the big refrigerator with an absolute MONSTER of a piece of meat. It was 11 pounds and $ 30. I bought it. I’ll be cooking it at a family reunion this weekend. The last brisket i bought was from stop and shop and it was 4lbs and $ 24. WHAT A DEAL!?!
Next time i need weird and extremely large quantities of meat, i will be back!
Oh and the butchers made meat jokes with me! (best part!)

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Lord Jeff’s is nestled deep in the bowels of what could easily be misconceived as one of the filthiest places in the entire city, New Market Square. Never heard of New Market Square? There’s a pretty sign for New Market right at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, which is rightfully considered a really fucking scary spot (junkies, hookers, the homeless, guys that clean your windshield with newspaper and spit, etc). Anyway, go past this crap and take a left after Victoria’s Diner and go down into the warehouse district and you are in the meat packing and produce distribution heart of Boston.
Look for the crappy parking lot and you will see a little sign that reads
’Retail Hours, Lord Jeff’s’. Park your car, ignore the filth, watch your step and walk inside. Pretty unimpressive, seriously it looks like a crappy store at first. But walk to the back, walk up the deli counter. Ignore the cheap prices for domestic ham and American cheese and look at the signs on the wall, goat by the pound, brisket, vast arrays of every make, model and year of sausage and chicken parts as far as the eye can see.
And they are helpful. Looking for a lamb shoulder? Ask. Looking for chicken hearts? Ask. Don’t be afraid. These guys know meat and want to sell it to you.
This is where real people who refuse to buy the crappy meats at Stop and Shop come to stock up.