Tucked down a quiet little street in New York, there is a butcher shop where sawdust still crunches under your shoes and the person behind the counter actually knows your name. Florence Prime Meat Market looks like something from an old photograph, yet it hums with life every single day.
People wait patiently outside just to pick up meat cut exactly the way they asked. Once you taste what comes out of that counter, you understand why they keep coming back.
A Corner of the West Village Frozen in Time
Down on Jones Street in Manhattan’s West Village sits a small shop that feels like a portal to another era. Florence Prime Meat Market is a butcher shop, plain and simple, but there is nothing plain about it.
Wander past and you might almost miss the modest front. Step inside, though, and the sawdust-covered floor tells you right away that this place plays by older, better rules…