Gower Salt Marsh Lamb is one of the most popular products that we sell on the Hugh Phillips Gower Butcher online shop. But what makes this cut of lamb so special? Undoubtedly, it’s the environment where the sheep graze that makes the meat succulent and tender with the most incredible taste. The specific habitat growing […]
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Renowned butcher uses Royal Welsh Show to launch website Hugh Phillips Gower Butcher is launching its new retail website, bestonlinebutcher.co.uk, at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells this Wednesday. The website enables customers all over the UK to buy its top quality Welsh meat. Champion strong man David Todd will also be taking part, showing off the strength that makes him an indispensable […]
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World Steak Challenge 2017 Swansea butcher Catherine Butler of Hugh Phillips Gower Butcher has been chosen as one of the judges in the World Steak Challenge, which will be held in London at The Magic Roundabout on Tuesday July 4. She will join a 25-strong team of International meat scientists, executive chefs, master butchers, authors and food writers whose […]
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Is this Britain’s only woman to run a butchers and abattoir? Catherine Butler is used to being a woman in a man’s world. After more than a decade helping her father run the family’s abattoir and butchers, she has officially taken the reins as the owner of the company following her father Hugh’s retirement. The transition was marked by her winning Food Standards Agency approval on [...] Continue Reading
Swansea butcher scoops strong man title Swansea Butcher Hugh Phillips, which has its own abattoir on Gower and a stall on Swansea Market, is celebrating employee David Todd’s stunning strong man victory. Butcher David scooped the title of Wales’ Strongest Man Under 80 kilos in Cardiff last month in Wales’ Show of Strength competition - and he says working as a [...] Continue Reading
Salt marsh lamb: the Welsh delicacy coming into season this May/June Welsh butcher Hugh Phillips, which is also the only butcher on Swansea’s famous indoor market to have its own abattoir and totally traceable produce with PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) status, is getting ready for its first deliveries of Gower salt marsh lamb in May/June this year. A hugely sought after Welsh delicacy, Gower salt marsh [...] Continue Reading