tuesday · may 6
Berkshire pig
Glynwood Farm · Cold Spring · 9 years a partner
Dressed wt214 lb
Hung5 days
BreedBerkshire ×2
Halász & Sons is a whole-animal butcher shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Every week we break down two whole pigs, one steer, and one lamb, sourced from a small set of farms in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We sell everything — primal cuts, charcuterie, bones, fat, blood, & offal — until it's gone. When it's gone, it's gone.
Jowl & cheekhead meat · 1.4 lb avg
$14/ lb
Shoulder · Boston butt★ 5 lb roast or pulled
$11/ lb
Loin · center-cut chopbone-in · 1.25" thick
$17/ lb
Ham · fresh legroasted whole or cured
$13/ lb
Picnic · arm shoulder3.5 lb · braising cut
$9/ lb
Belly · slab★ for bacon or braise
$15/ lb
Spare ribs · St Louis3.5 lb avg
$13/ lb
Hock & trotterfor stock, ramen, cassoulet
$7/ lb
✚ SOLD OUT: fresh ham · bone marrow · lardo slab · liverwurst · all gone by 9am. Next pig Tuesday at 7am. ★ Get on the Tuesday list.
§ 03 · THIS WEEK AT THE BLOCK
Every week we break down four animals — two pigs Tuesday, one steer Wednesday, one lamb Saturday. The list of farms is short and unchanging. We pay each farm more than commodity rate and buy the whole animal — every part. We sell everything until it's gone, and if you want a specific cut, the only way to be sure is to order ahead (or come early on the day it's broken).
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The six farms we buy from are the ones we have worked with for years — sometimes for over a decade. We pay them more than commodity rate and we buy the entire animal, every cut, every bone. What ends up in the case depends on what each animal was, not what we ordered.
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Animals arrive whole at our shop on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday mornings, broken down on the block by hand, the same day. No central processing. No cryovac trim coming in from a different room. What you buy was a whole animal when it walked through our door.
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Primal cuts go fast — chops, ribeyes, bellies — and we love that. But we also sell the bones, the fat, the offal, the skin, and the blood. Schmaltz, marrow, kidneys, tongue, blood sausage, all of it. Nothing is composted that could be eaten.
The shop is run by four people. Imre Halász Sr opened it in May 2014 after fifteen years in a wholesale butchery in Astoria. His two sons, Bence and Imre Jr, joined in 2017 and 2019; Sofía Mariscal-Lee, our charcuterie maker, joined in 2021 from a one-year apprenticeship at the Salumeria in Modena. We hire one apprentice per year for a 12-month program; this year's is Daniel, here through November.
Imre Halász Sr.
Owner · head butcher
Opened Halász & Sons in 2014, after fifteen years at a wholesale butchery in Astoria. Breaks down every steer himself. Will, on quiet afternoons, talk for half an hour about how to wet-cure a ham.
Bence Halász
Butcher · since '17
Imre's older son, joined the shop a year after finishing culinary school. Runs the pig side Tuesday mornings and most of the sausage-making. The reason the Italian sausage tastes like it does.
Sofía Mariscal-Lee
Charcuterie · since '21
Trained for a year at the Salumeria Storica in Modena, Italy. Built and runs our cured-meat cellar downstairs. All charcuterie in the case — sopressata, coppa, bresaola, guanciale — is hers.
Imre Halász Jr.
Butcher · since '19
Imre's younger son, the front-of-house. The person who will probably take your order, run the counter on Saturday mornings, and remember whether you wanted your chops thick-cut or thin.
§ 05 · WHOLE & HALF ORDERS
We sell half & whole pigs, sides of beef, & whole lambs a couple of times a year, on the same farms we work with weekly. The list is by the form below — we email you when an animal is two weeks out, you pick your cut sheet (how to break it down), and we have it ready in 3-4 weeks. Pricing $7.40 — $9.20 / lb hanging weight, depending on species and farm.