The Pittsburgh Butcher Shop Quietly Making the City’s Best Smash Burgers

Most butcher shops stop at selling raw meat, but Fat Butcher on Butler Street decided that was only half the story.

This Lawrenceville gem sources pasture-raised cattle from Western Pennsylvania farms, breaks down whole animals in-house, and then smashes that same fresh-ground beef into burgers every single day until 4 PM.

It’s the kind of place where you come for lunch and leave with a sandwich in hand and a bag of specialty cuts for dinner.🥩🍔

How they won local’s hearts

Fat Butcher won over Pittsburgh by bringing back something the city had genuinely missed: a real neighborhood butcher who knows exactly where every cut comes from and isn’t shy about showing you…

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