Village Butcher The Pie & Sausage Shop

Sorry Canham and Sons, but there’s a new ‘best butcher’ in town!
I’m so happy I decided to pop into this little shop on a whim, because the Village Butcher is exactly the kind of traditional experience I’ve been looking for. The owner is the jolliest butcher you’ll ever meet, and made my husband and I feel more than welcome, even though it was nearly closing time. Chatting with him made me feel like I had accidentally walked into a day’s filming of the BBC series ‘The High Street’, because it certainly appeared like I had gone back in time to the days when the butcher was an important member of the community, and treated you like family.
But I digress — on to the review! :) The shop is small and very clean, and has a very large variety of locally sourced and organic meats, offal and homemade sausages. I know next to nothing about cooking meat but the owner was more than happy to discuss preparation techniques and recipes, and help us decide which cuts which might like best. Next to the meat counter is another display full of homemade pies and puddings, and we bought a Steak and Stilton pie to snack on while we walked home, and Steak and Kidney pudding for dinner.
That Steak and Stilton pie was the BEST PIE I HAVE EVER EATEN IN MY LIFE. The meat was soft, tender and melt-​in-​your-​mouth gorgeous, the gravy flavourful and sweet, the pastry buttery and delicious — seriously, the Best Pie EVER. I’d also never really liked boiled puddings before, but their Steak and Kidney one was amaaaaaaaaazing — again, the meat was gloriously tender and the suet was fluffy and SO TASTY, utterly unlike any other puddings I’d ever eaten. I cannot rave enough about how delicious their food is!
And best of all — not only do you get all this incredible food and friendly, attentive personalized service — but they also DELIVER. Anywhere in Brighton! How could you possibly choose anyone else? :)