Maine Street Meats

By Annemarie Ahearn

In early June, Maine Street Meats opened their antique red doors in The State of Maine Cheese Company building in Rockport.

Sarah Bleecker Greer, a devotee of the local food movement; Andrew Flamm, a walking food encyclopedia; and Craig Linke, a master butcher who taught our pig butchering class last year, have opened a European style butcher shop that sources local and sustainably raised meats from Maine.  They also have an extensive selection of imported cheeses, in-house and imported charcuterie, olive oils, mustards, anchovies, pastas, sweets and much more.

As a chef who’s spent quite a bit of time in Europe, I’ve been waiting for a shop like this to open in my home town for a long time.  I think I could subsist entirely off of the goods at Maine Street Meats and thankfully, they sell a little local produce as well.  If you haven’t stopped in, do so immediately.

Maine Street Meats
461 Commercial Street
(in the State of Maine Cheese Company building)
Rockport, Maine 04856
(207) 236-MEAT

All photos by Annemarie Ahearn.  Logo courtesy of Maine Street Meats.