Lidgates

I don’t ever write reviews as I think they are a waste of my time. But in case anyone reads them….. I popped in here at 16.15 on my way out of London as I wanted a nice meal on a Friday night as I wouldn’t have made my normal butcher shop. Shop was empty of customers and waited a couple of minutes until guy came from back of shop to serve me. Asked for a rib eye steak and was promptly ask just the one, with a frown!!!! Yes and a chicken breast skin on please, I replied. Order processed was given the ticket to pay at the till. My god the price of £37.98 nearly blew me away. I paid and exited the shop. Thinking about the experience I was shocked at the service and the cost.( it wasn’t great produce. The thing that really got me was that I felt I was treated rather different from their local clientele as I was in my work clothes. My money didn’t seem good enough. A local couple ( I presume) came in, whilst I was being served, to purchase some, ready to buy teriyaki beef and was met with far more grace than myself. They must of looked the part. Will not go to this place again as over priced and not welcome(my feeling)

I have been shopping, on-and-off, at Lidgates for half my life. Last year I ordered 4 flat-iron steaks and received two I was still charged for 4. The two I did receive were meanwhile as tough as old boots. Lidgates were quick to offer to deliver two more flat iron steaks or alternatively a refund. I forgot to do either in the end. Last week I bought 7 pies, received 7 pies, and was charged by Lidgates for 8. I have not experienced picking problems at major supermarkets, or indeed anyone else, since Covid. Lidgates needs to allocate a staff member to double-check that orders collected by pickers are complete before sending them out, as everyone else seems to do. I hesitate, mostly because of the disappointing flat iron steak quality experience, to buy sight-unseen meat online again from Lidgates, though I will probably revisit the shop again so I can at least see the quality of the meat I am getting. Lidgates charge a premium price for everything they sell. The least we can expect as customers is premium quality in return and that there are no missing items from our orders. Really disappointed.

This is just the best! You pay a little more but worth the quality and experience. I great selection of Meats, ready prepared(to cook at home) pies and marinates etc Cheese selection is vast and well picked. Big quality sausage selection also. I highly recommend

Found this place on Google for my Thanksgiving pies. Ordered the Pumpkin & Pecan pies, went down a treat this year! Great service, quick and easy! Looking at placing my Christmas orders next! Great to support local businesses.

Went here yesterday and what a place , staff amazing and friendly, my £1.97 sausage roll was out of this world , thanks jamie .Definitely something here for everyone. Will be back even if it's just to look around and enjoy the banter. 💯 recommend !

Went in for a beef rib and left with a cote de boeuf. Beef was high quality and dry aged. The service was fantastic, can't wait to come back.

Decent meat and very friendly, professional service. It is overpriced, you can get much better value at other grocers and butchers in Notting Hill. For the same price you get excellent meat vs decidedly average steaks, pies, chicken, and pork.

Brilliant service. My order was misunderstood and Thanksgiving dinner was looking like it would be without the pumpkin pie, but Lidgates staff got a courier and saved the evening. Above and beyond, for sure.

So I have lived a short walk away for so many months and never tried this place until recently. I had heard great things about this place but for whatever reason never got around to trying it out. AMAZING! I had no idea what I wanted to try as everything looked great. I asked the lady helping me which sausages were the best and a worker was putting sausages in the case said "Everything!!" He was right. Everything we tried was soooo good! We tried a bunch of different sausages, the beef bourguignon pie, and the shepherds pie. The beef bourguignon was for sure the stand out item. For the next few days my husband kept talking about the pies here because he liked them so much. Great service and wonderfully delicious products! Must try!!

Someday I'm going to marry Oprah and I'll be a stay-at-home husband. I'll say to Oprah, "we should buy a place in Kensington/Notting Hill." And she'll look down the back of the sofa cushions and procure me a giant wad of cash to do so. And then I will spend my days grilling tasty meat snacks, procured from C Lidgate. Almost everything they sell is so meticulously prepped that all you have to do is bake/cook/grill. Or if that's too difficult, you can buy a pre-made pie. If Holly Golightly was a carnivore, she would have stalked the windows here and not Tiffany's. The fare here is presented like fine jewelry. That's why I gotta marry Oprah. It's simply uncouth for me to go in and order just a single lamb chop.

The term "Awesome"...and certainly in lower case does not do this place justice. AWESOME!!!! - ahhh much better - I have never felt this way about a set of butchers before....it could be love....though that would be weird. The quality of the products they have is phenominal - as is the range. It can be quite dear but the price really does reflect the quality. Put it this way to celebrate a close relatves 60th birthday we opened a bottle of Dom Perignon and had a pie from this place. The pie held it's own ground. This is the place to get your Xmas or thanks giving turkeys. The sausage roles for your Sunday brunch are also very good. And as for the pies -I would eat them all...I would be fat and I would die happy - I recommend the Chicken Ham and Mushroom - hell I recommend them all....and they come in different sizes. Be warned though you do have to order them in advance. This place is a must!!! Go to their website and check out what they have to offer.

The service at Lidgate I have been going to Lidgate for 30 years. The service used to be formal and old fashion with an occasional smile; then it became formal and cold with no smiles, eventually cold and almost unfriendly. Now it is cold, unfriendly, rude and inefficient with no eye contact what so ever and a grunted farewell-dont-ever-come-back as you are ready to pay and leave. What is the matter with the place? Is the staff beaten every hour or might it be underpaid or is it so full of itself that the rest of us mortal need to be despised and humiliated? The meat? It still has a good reputation but quite honestly there are plenty of other places by now where the meat is local, free range and organic, properly cut and delicious looking with staff that recognises you and treats you with such friendliness that you long to go back the minute you step out. So I ask myself is my chicken escalope worth Lidgate's obnoxious and uncivilised treatment?

My wife has bought from here in the past and recommended that we get a pie from here as she had a hankering. I was stunned when I was quoted £20 for a three-portion beouf bourginon pie but thought "well, the missus must know something", ordered the pie and paid the money. When I took it to her, she was stunned that her notoriously tight-fisted hubby had spent £20 on a pie. My rationale was that if this place was as amazing as she said, it'd justify its cost. This pie was made to order at 4pm in the afternoon, fresh as a daisy and you could see where they'd brushed egg over the top of the pie. We cooked it and it smelled just amazing. I think I'd buy it again just to smell it. I was disappointed when I realised it didn't have a base but when I ate the first bite, all my disappointment subsided. When I ate the second bite, I realised that this pie was really something special. It was flavoursome with a beautiful pastry and full of filling. Pies usually skimp on the filling but this one was filled to the brim with amazing beouf bourginon. I really can't fault it, it was absolutely worth the money. I would never usually review after one good experience but this was so good that I had to write a review. I want to try a Cornish pasty but my worry is that if I do, I'll never be able to eat one anywhere else.

For years I've been sent the Lidgate emails and drooled over all the tasty-sounding meat. Finally, for the 4th of July, I decided it was time to make the slight trek out and get some meat for the barbecue. It's not a very big place but it's full to the brim of many tasty looking things! It's a bit hard to see the things for the BBQ as they're only on display in the window. But we made our picks and came back inside and placed the order - a Jamaican chicken skewer, a steak and onion skewer, a chicken and lemongrass skewer, and a wagyu beef burger. We also got some smoked bratwurst, a chicken and olive pie for dinner another night, some veal and gruyere burgers, also for another night, and some pecan pie slices. Last night my other half endeavoured to fit all the meat on the BBQ. We were a bit disappointed in the chicken skewers, which were expensive (between £5 to £7 each) and didn't have much flavour of the marinades. But the chicken was nice! Our favourite was the steak skewer (£8) and the wagyu burger was tasty, too (around £3). The pecan pie isn't good and at £2.20 a slice, is good value but I wouldn't recommend it. Service was prompt and friendly, and our bag of food was heavy and full for about £40. The packaging though wasn't perfect - the frozen pie put at the bottom of a paper bag caused the bag to rip in about an hour, but we had another bag and it was okay in the end. They had a huge selection of sausages, which we didn't buy but we did sample some and they were really good. I think it's worth going back, but next time I'll be a bit more selective.

Just the very best quality meat in London. Fantastic home made pies. Great condiments. Organic eggs. Goose fat. Lovely cheeses. Fresh hams. Really, all you could ask for in a butcher, old school, excellent quality and very friendly service. It is expensive....but like everything in life, you get what you pay for. You can taste every single penny worth of flavour. I definitely recommend this butcher to family and friends.

Superb butchers. They give me free bones when they have them around (for stock). The highest quality of meats, and the pies are certainly good. I've never had the prepared stuff (marinated items), but they looks like good ways to get a quick dinner on the table. These guys are upholding a great tradition that has faded a bit as we have decided to pinch pennies over quality and good value. The minced steak is way better than anything you can get from Waitrose or Tesco. I wouldn't use anything else honestly. The only reason this isn't 5 stars is due to the gruffness you get from the staff sometimes. I'm sure they are all nice guys and gals, but they can be a bit dismissive or annoyed if you ask a lot of questions or have weird requests (the bones). I'm not sure I would even change that, as these folks are professionals and there aren't a lot around, but when I went to A. Dove and Son (my old butcher), that guy was hilarious and always friendly.

I live in Northern British Columbia and have just returned from visiting my family in the U.K. On the day I was due to leave my sister had ordered a steak, mushroom and apricot pie from Lidgates for the sad, farewell lunch. The pie arrived at 7:30a.m.and I truly thought my sister had lost her mind never having had a pie delivered before, definitely not at this time in the morning. Welllater on when I had woken up I could not belive my eyes when I saw the pie! A huge pie and certainly it could not have been carried home. It was truly the most wonderful pie I have ever eaten!I am home now wondering how I could attempt such a pie myself..hence the googling of Lidgate!

After shopping here for over 1 year I can offer a review,3 day a week I looked forward to great service, helpful advice from the butcher staff, meat usually good , but on 2 occasion the chicken breasts were smelly & on there way south, & with the organic eggs I found 1 black rotten egg in a box of 6 more than once, when i complained to the office staff I did not get much satisfaction, with my monthly spend over £500 I thought I was a valued customer, didn,t feel that way. Overpriced for not so great quality.

I'm not much of a meat-eater, but when I make an exception I try to get it from Lidgate's. The prices are a lot higher than supermarkets, but so is the quality. Each visit is an experience and a trip into a long-lost time. You order at the counter, then queue to pay at the back of the shop.

Every butcher should be like this one! The meat was so good. You can't get this stuff in supermarkets. Yes, you'll pay about double of what a major supermarket would charge, but I do highly recommend it, even if it is just for the special occasions. I had the sirloin steak and it was absolutely amazing. The service is really good. If you don't feel like cooking much, just grab one of the pies they have. I haven't tried them but they do look delicious.

Surely this is the best butcher in Central London. Lidgate's has been around for more than a century and a half and sells seriously high quality meats - organic and free range. Try the excellent homemade sausages, pies, quiches as well as of course all the usual joints and cuts. Much is sourced from Prince Charle's Highgrove Estate. This is probably the only butcher to which it is worth making a special trip....oh and try their coq au vin - delicious!

One of the best quality butchers around. They pretty much do everything and its all organic and free range. Yes it is expensive but as soon as you sink your teeth into that juicy slab of meat you know where your money went and that it was so worth it

Whether you love or like meat you may very well love C. Lidgate. This shop beats Whole Food's ( in London) meat counter any day. Their sausage is so full of flavor and they make their own Toulouse sausage. They also have a deli counter with real turkey and ham. Great meat and fantastic unexpected extras like slap ur mama seasoning! Perhaps not the place to go if you are on a tight budget but excellent if you have a little extra to spend or value fresh organic meat and great service.

Simply excellent quality meat and very friendly staff. Their pies make winter worth having.