Giunta's Prime Shop — Local services in Philadelphia

When I look at all these cooking shows, where everyone is an expert grill master with $5,000.00 smokers and grills the price of a mortgage, I just shake my head. Everyone has a specialty spice they swear needs to be sprinkled or rubbed on the meat. But I'm here to tell you, you need just a few things: a great cut of meat from Giuntas, salt, pepper. oil, frying pan. That's it. Butter and garlic are optional. I asked for butcher to cut me a thick piece of bone in rib roast. I took it home, seasoned both sides with cracked black pepper and sea salt, put in fridge overnight. Sat out for an hour then heated up frying pan with Avocado oil. When pan smoked I added steak and I did not turn. Repeat other side. Stand on end and brown edges. Marinate with butter and garlic cloves. Finish in oven. The steak you see is what I, a regular Joe schmo cook, made. Thank you Giunta for having the best and kindest butchers. You have an awesome team that takes pride in their trade and in interacting professionally with...

I love this place but today was unacceptable. Unfortunately being a minority you have that fear and the man that waited on us displayed just that on top of the look on his face which seemed like he didn’t want to wait on us 👎🏽. I had to double take thinking “i know he’s not picking the chicken up with his bare hand….he was! I had to walk closer to make sure, Ive NEVER seen a worker there not use a glove. I thought he was going to wash his hands after bagging the chicken but NO he touched the bag we had to carry, the apple pay machine and he picked somebody’s else’s steak up with the same hand. I work in the industry so at least in front of customers wear gloves. Im hoping he wasn’t just being nasty to the colored people. They probably should just have him in the boh because everything about his...

So the other day, I found myself in a totally innocuous conversation, with just some dude I run into every Sunday, and interact for approx 1.5 mins..conversation was about how difficult it is to find turkey legs and thigh bones this time of year (I know, kinda weird conversation to have, don't judge), other than what you get on a whole turkey, which tend to be on the smaller size, turns out to be the owner of Giunta Butcher shop in Reading Terminal Market, and he has these delivered to my house...just like Oprah kinda used to say " you get to have a turkey roulade, everybody gets to have turkey roulade this year"...these things are massive, and the price, what some people look for in reviews, insanely reasonable, couldn't be...