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RGE RD Launches The Butchery The perfect antidote for homebound carnivores Since Blair Lebsack and Caitlin Fulton opened RGE RD in 2013, they’ve held onto a top slot among Edmonton’s most lauded restaurants. In these last seven years, RGE RD has ceaselessly championed an Albertan centered farm-to-table cuisine that never cuts corners. With this newest lockdown on restaurants, the opening of their long awaited deli & butcher’s counter could not have come at a better time. RGE RD is well known and admired for their intensive dry-ageing program, buying whole animals and butchering them in-house. The Butchery by RGE RD, the all-new shop adjacent to the restaurant, has made the fruits of their expertise available to the home chef concerned for quality. Edmontonians can now bring home RGE RD’s best cuts from local ranchers who subscribe to the same degree of integrity — consciously raising unique breeds of cattle, bison, game, pork, and poultry. When a side of cattle, for example, arrives from any of several nearby small family ranchers they work with, their team first dry-ages the entire side of beef for three to six weeks. Then whole muscles are trimmed and the appropriate cuts (like their gorgeous briskets!) are sold, raw sausages are spun, and a host of tougher muscles are smoked or cured into their delectable deli meats. ▶
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