The Flying Butcher
Steaks, sausages, sandwiches. If you're a food lover, this place is pretty much food paradise. We're on route 101A in Amherst, New Hampshire, at a one of a kind spot called The Flying Butcher. Whether you want to grab a quick lunch or you want to get food for dinner to make at home, this place is the ultimate one stop shop with everything delicious you can imagine.
“Flying Butcher is a lot to put in a description. We are all about high quality meats, seafood, sides, prepared dishes, sandwiches, beer, wine, you name it. We're a little bit of everything.”
The Flying Butcher has been feeding hungry customers for over 13 years. It's run by Craig Muccini and Brian Nassif. And when it comes to high quality food and incredible customer service, these guys are about as passionate as it gets.
“I'm a foodie. We love food here, so we have chef inspired recipes back there, a lot of scratch cooking going on. We enjoy food, so that's what separates us.”
As soon as you walk through the doors here, you will start salivating.
“When they come in the store, they're kind of shocked. They look at the storefront and they're like, ‘Wow, I think, you know, there's a butcher shop in there’. But then once they get in, they see all the different options we have.”
There's the butcher shop, seafood counter, deli, there's a grill, incredible desserts, hard to find wines, local craft beers, all kinds of spices and seasonings. The number one reason why people come to the flying butcher is for the steaks.
“You can get just about any cut that you want here, the ribeyes, the strip steaks, the porter houses, the cowboy steaks.”
“We like to come thicker, leave a nice layer of fat on there so that you can grill it up and experience what the difference is.”
Steak tips are one of the hallmarks here at the Flying Butcher. And frankly, these are some of the biggest and the best steak tips I have ever found. I mean, just look at the size of this steak tip. Each one of these is about three quarters of a pound. The tips are all marinated right here in house. They have a wide variety of flavors. The most popular steak tip is definitely the house marinade. This looks like a classic Italian seasoning. They also do a sticky sweet steak tip. It's like an Asian style marinade. So it's definitely a little sweet, but it perfectly complements the meat.
If you're planning to grill some steaks at home, they have every option you could want. This is my personal favorite cut of meat: the porterhouse. So you got the sirloin on one side, the filet on the other, the bone right down the middle. So all you need to do is throw this baby on the grill, give it a flip, and over the top they have some house made compound garlic butter. You'll spend way over 100 bucks if you get this at a high class steakhouse, or you can come right here to the Flying Butcher and get it for a fraction of the price.
The only thing better than the steaks here might be the sandwiches. And for all you steak lovers, of course, they do a steak and cheese sandwich. They use their roast beef shaved nice and thin, then they chop it up before it goes on the grill, top it off with some nice American cheese, throw it onto a toasted bun with garlic butter all over it. That is a masterful steak and cheese sub. This is their latest and greatest sandwich creation. It's the Meatball Fra Diablo. So these meatballs are perfectly seasoned, nice and moist, and they're really big. Throw on some of their spicy fra Diablo sauce, and to kick up the flavor even more, some fried jalapenos. This meatball sub is a masterpiece.
If you're a burger lover, the Flying Butcher is a must visit destination. They're great to take home and grill yourself. Or you can get a fresh burger grilled right here in the shop. Just check out the Peppercorn and Blue Cheese Burger. You can see big chunks of blue cheese inside, and the whole patty is rubbed in peppercorns. So it's sort of like a poor man's steak au poive, but it eats like a $50 steak. My favorite burger is known as the Belly Buster. You got three quarters of a pound of that juicy hamburger patty, melted cheese, thick cut slab bacon, a big old pile of their house made pulled pork, some barbecue sauce over the top, all on a nice toasted brioche bun. It’s time to bust my belly. I don't care if it busts my belly, it's worth it 100%.
Most of the food here is made in house, but if they don't make it, they get it from local purveyors. All of the desserts here come straight from Modern Pastry in Boston's North End. One of the most tempting dessert cases I have ever seen in my life, and they have my all time favorite Italian dessert here: the lobster tail. This thing is a monster, super crispy, crunchy on the outside and on the inside, stuffed with a ridiculous amount of fluffy pastry cream.
You can get an amazing sandwich, get your food to go, and you will be flying high when you visit the Flying Butcher.
“We try to make people feel welcome here. Feel like. Family, we want them to leave here with knowledge, high quality food and something they can talk about when they go home.”
