Fresh Meat Market

Fresh Meat Market is the place where I like to buy my meat and
seafood. The meat and seafood are fairly fresh and the prices are way
cheaper than Safeway or 99 Ranch!
Their Pork Blood and Bull Testicles are pretty fresh as you can see on
the pictures.
A great thing is that they accept Credit Cards and EBT (Food Stamps).

Great local market! It’s convenient and meat prices are reasonable. I find the employees really helpful, they try their best to assist you in every possible way. The best is that the are multi language so if you are looking for anything in particular and don’t speak english for example, there will always be someone to help you out. The place is clean, the employees are nice. Overall, great customer service and pleasant shopping experience. Fully recommend it.

Awesome place. I shop here on a regular basis, and enjoy their fresh fish, shrimp, and other types of seafood. Inside is clean, and price is very affordable. The people there are friendly and will help you. 5 star from me. Highly recommended.

Overall an awesome local market that has seafood at a reasonable price. I find myself going here more than anywhere else because their stuff is fresh, affordable, and they have a great variety. The guys working there are friendly, helpful, and speak multiple language including Cantonese, Spanish, and of course, English.
As far as freshness is concerned, I am happy too. We buy meat from here pretty much every other day, and we’ve never had any issues. Great place. I have no hesitation recommending it to anybody.

They have great variety of meats and seafood. The employee is very friendly and get the job done. The employee who helped me doesn’t speak fluent English but he does speak Cantonese, which is fine for me. I believe some of the employees speak Spanish. The price is reasonable as well. I would come here again.

I went to the store today to buy 1 fish, 3 crabs, 2 steaks and 2 chicken. The quality of meat and seafood were great! The price was reasonable. Jorge (sale guy) gave me an excellent customer service and helpful tips. I also impressed that he speaks Spanish and Cantonese. He said he is from Vzla but look like Asian. Overall, The customer service was very friendly. The store is very clean.

I wish i could give this place NO STARS! I’m visiting for Thanksgiving and decided to go buy ham from this place since it’s the closest one. I get that the employee wants to make small talk but if she’s going to pass judgement and call me lazy and point right at my face based on what college I go to then you don’t deserve my business. That lady with the grey hair who absolutely has no manners had the audacity to call me «lazy» two times and the person I was with «stupid» and that we «…don’t know anything». Mind you, I’m a cell microbiology major but no one should have to defend their place of education like this.
I asked one of the employees if I could speak to the manager and they said that he had gone home early. They also scratched it off as miscommunication but no matter what language you speak there is common sense. Calling a customer lazy and stupid is ridiculous. This, on top of slamming the products when you’re hanging it to them is appalling. That lady should be fired!

Went there to buy 20 lbs ground pork to make sausage one of the employees told me to come back in 10 minutes. Surprise went home with 20 lbs of stinky ground pork bad experience. that’s the reason why they told me to wait outside cause they were grinding the spoil product.

Not recommended!
Yesterday, I bought some crabs from this place and it cost me $ 50. When I got home,
I found that they gave me crabs that already died and it smells really bad, whereas they choose those crabs inside the aquarium which I think all those are fresh crabs. And today one of my friend got food poisoning because ate those rotten crabs.
Don’t spend your money in this place. Not worth it!

Used to go here fairly frequently back in the day. Made a return visit this week after picking up some great salmon across the street at Sun Fat and was really taken back by how bad just about everything was.
Flies everywhere, most meats looked grey, and seafood hadn’t seen water — or ice — for a while. Sad.

Pros: They have everything. I’m a foodie and love to cook, and this place will likely have what I’m looking for. It’s the only place in SF I could find turkey legs in May (I guess turkey is only for Thanksgiving?). And the prices are awesome!
Cons: The sanitation was a little sketchy. I watched the butchers touch the meat, then the glass doors to the public freezer, then money, then back to the meat. Bring hand sanitizer and probably rinse your food.
But I’ll for sure be back. Great selection at unbelievable prices.

Ahi tuna steaks for $ 4.99 a lb? Delicously thick-​cut bacon for $ 3.99 a lb? Yes please! This place is the slightly less-​clean, more unintelligible sibling to Sun Fat across the street but they get the job done. Don’t buy your oysters here (they’ve been sitting out in a bag on ice instead of in a tank like at Sun Fat) but do buy your meats here, as they have a great selection and are fresh. Lots of pointing and smiling will take you far. Can’t wait til its crab season!

The meat and seafood are very fresh, but the guys behind the counter need to develop some better customer service. It is very frustrating trying to talk to them and I can’t understand them. I asked one guy how much is the crab…“What?” «Crab» «What?» «Crab, you know C-​R-​A-​B?» He still looked puzzled (are you serious?)…and $ 14.60 for ground beef and crab sure sounded like $ 14.16 to me (that was another ordeal). Good gawd, I could not wait to grab my purchases and skiddadle. I don’t think I will be back anytime soon.

I was searching for live crab for my Thanksgiving Feast. Being a total newb in the city from the East Coast, i try not to act like a total hayseed while utilizing public transit and running errands. Thanks to my Unilocal people, I was able to find Fresh Meat Market – and the reviews were spot on.
There was a giant tank of swimming Dungeoness Crab, for $ 4.99/lb. I wanted to have the honor of committing crab homicide – so I had them pack mine up, but I did see them killing and cleaning crabs for the woman next to me.
There was a large selection of fish, and the did have a sad bucket of blue crabs by the door mentioned in other reviews.
The walk there from BART was short and sketchy (get off at the 24^th and Mission stop, and scoot up Mission for a block or so), but worth it. The crab turned out delicious.

I haven’t sampled much of the seafood there, but they often carry live Maryland blue-​crabs (crawling around in an otherwise unlabeled cardboard box by the door) which are pretty hard to find out here, so that’s spiffy. Minus one star though since they were all females as best as I could tell. (Not being sexist, males are meatier).
Then again, it’s not inconceivable that savvy shoppers who wake up a lot earlier than I have already picked the crabbies over.
Either way, I get to steam them up with old-​bay for my east-​coast seafood fix!

(See pics)
Review #1013.
Quick Tip: $ 8.99/lb lobster, $ 6.99/lb dungeness crab and $ 3.99/lb clams!
Need I say more?
Alright, how about big chunks of $ 4.99/lb tuna/​cod/​trout, $ 7.99/lb wild salmon, $ 5.99/lb red snapper and a whole lot of other fish choices?
I did not lounge around the ground animals section but overall the shop was quite clean so the meat, ground or water, looked trusting and fresh.

I went here because the Sun Fat Seafood Market was closed, so it was a nice surprise this place was still open after work so I could get in and out and home for dinner. I walked in and there were a lot of flies in there, which isn’t a good thing for any fresh meat market… I avoided the places were large flying ants were also nesting (the crayfish and other places that laid out on the table in the middle).
I bought (from behind the counter) a heavy salmon steak, a half-​pound of sea scallops (the big ones), and a pound of tiger shrimp for $ 20. This was definitely worth my money considering that even though there is a smell to the fish that it is slight and therefore probably still pretty fresh.
A few guys were asking if the fish was wild caught or farm-​raised and the guy behind the counter couldn’t tell what he was asking so he just said over and over again, «Yes, trout.» It’s probably wild, then, and that’s not a good thing either. It would be more helpful, though, if they knew AND could communicate the answer to you. I’m not saying I’m racist or anything, heck I am probably the most foreign-​language-​accepting and promoting person I know, but if you work in an industry where questions arise, you need to be able to understand and answer them.
I cooked the salmon in some oil with light spices and it came out like butter it was so soft and melty. The shrimp I think I overcooked because they weren’t as soft as I would have liked. I have yet to cook the scallops but I haven’t gotten sick from anything so that’s a good sign.
Cash or Mastercard accepted only.
Bottom line: I’d go back but I’d also make sure I wash all my food before cooking it.

Now that crab season’s pretty much over, Fresh Meat Market is back to 2 stars for me. I went here the other day because it was about to rain and I didn’t want to risk being caught in the downpour by taking the extra time to walk down to Mission Market.
Service was better than usual. I bought beef stew meat at a reasonable price. It turned out to be VERY fatty and not really appropriate for beef stew at all.
Three days before that, I had bought some absolutely MARVELOUS beef stew meat at Mission Market for the exact same price.

Another stop of my Mission Grocery Guide:
Pork and beef ahoy! Okay I know this place looks and smells pretty gross, but it IS a meat and seafood place so the mix of the two scents are kinda nasty. If you bear with it, it’ll be worth it.
I’m pretty sure the stuff here isn’t organic or grass-​fed or whatever, but I CAN say that they have the most complete selection of whatever cow or pig part you may desire! I regularly buy skirt steaks (when everyone else just has flank), PORK BUTT, pork shoulder, and pork neck bones (makes awesome ramen broth).
If you need a certain cut, don’t hesitate to ask. You can also have them grind or cut anything you see — remember it’s still a butcher shop so you can ask for whatever special hamburger recipe blend you may desire.
Get the beef short ribs here — they have excellent marbling at this shop compared to others in the area.
Regarding seafood, most of the stuff looks pretty old and smells really fishy so I would hesitate to buy… That being said, don’t hesitate to buy their live dungeness crab for only $ 2.99 a pound.

Guess what?! I’m going to share a secret with you… I LOVE CRAB. It’s Crab Season, my favorite season other than Baseball Season.
Okay, it’s no secret — but I will share with you where I buy my fresh local Dungeness Crab. The Fresh Meat Market is my favorite spot to buy fresh live crab, right now it’s on sale at $ 2.99/pound. Two Large Crabs were under $ 14.00.
They cut them, wash them and bag them for you. I like watching them prep my crab for me (Insert evil little laugh here Muah-​hahahahaa). They probably think that it’s weird that I took these pictures of them while prepping my crab.
Last weekend I also picked up some jumbo tiger prawns to make my mango chili lime pawns. They were pre-​peeled and cleaned, so easy to get my recipe started and dinner on the table in record time. I picked up a pound of these at $ 8.99.
This is all making me very hungry for the next crab cookout, which you can bet will be happening very soon.