The Premium Butcher is a venture by Dawn Meats, a new website where households anywhere in Ireland can order meats, sauces and marinades online for convenient home delivery.
An array of the most popular cuts of Irish beef, lamb, pork and bacon are available to order through the website as well a number of premium dry aged cuts of beef from steaks to rib joints.
As always the entire range of meats available to buy on the website are 100% Irish and Bord Bia Quality Assured.
All sauces and marinades come from small Irish producers including artisans such as Tastefully Yours, a small but innovative business based in Co Waterford. Tastefully Yours were the recipients of a 2011 Bridgestone Award.
Order & Delivery
The Premium Butcher’s website offers detailed information on everything you need to know about buying meat online, from steps to ordering meat on the website right through to delivery options.
Through a partnership with Fastway Couriers our team of butchers now offer “next day delivery” on all orders regardless of where you live in Ireland from Dublin to Cork to Galway to Belfast and every town and village in between! Please See delivery options and conditions
A very competitive delivery rate of €4.95 is charged on orders under €75 and the FREE there after regardless of what county you live in.
All orders are dispatched each morning from our factory shop in Carroll’s Cross in Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford. If you live in Waterford you can also drop by the shop to view our range.
Remember: If you live in the "local area" or indeed the greater Waterford area you can order from our online butcher shop and collect in the store yourself in your own time!
Our Online Butchers
Alison Phelan is the head of our team here at “The Premium Butcher”. Alison has a rich background in the craft growing up in her family butchers “Phelans” which was established on George’s street in Waterford in 1954. The family were the recipients of many all Munster and Ireland titles for their range of gourmet pudding’s and succulent sausages.
Customer Care Team
To ensure our service remains efficient and dependable the online butchers are assisted by a customer care team happy to address all of your questions and queries about ordering meat online from delivery times to charges. The customer care team endeavour to offer the highest level of service to customers and address any issues you may have with buying meat online and delivery.
Contact Orla Murphy: 0818 365 444
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Sourcing Quality Irish Meats: Our Range
Premium Cuts: West Cork Dry Aged
The dry aged beef range is the websites most premium range and features fillet, rib-eye, t-bone and striploin steaks as well as rib joints. This range of beef comes from the foodie heaven that is West Cork from a small group of farmers. Our butchers use a special 14-21 day maturation process to further enhance taste and texture of these beef cuts. (What is dry ageing)
Popular Cuts of Beef
The website also caters to families providing a range of popular cuts of meat from diced and minced beef through to topside roasts and steak burgers. Check out our range of special offers or "bundles" which offer an average saving of 25% over purchasing meats individually. These offers are only available through the website!
See more discount bundles for great family deals!
Gourmet Pork & Bacon
We select our pork and bacon from a number of dedicated Irish farmers and stock a wide range of delicious cuts from succulent pork belly through to back bacon joints and rolled gammon. (See Pork and Bacon)
Lamb from the West
Our butchers endeavour to source lamb from areas the West of Ireland where the unique and varied flora including wild herbs and grasses provide a rich diet for these lambs and thus impact the flavours of the meat. Cuts of lamb include succulent lamb shanks, racks and tenderloins to name just a few.
Sauces & Marinades
Check out our Irish friends at Tastefully Yours, Simplee Salts and Kylemore Acres providing a great array of BBQ sauces, dinner sauces and seasonings for stews and casseroles alike.
Gift Certificates
This year we have launched a new item on the website; our gift certificates cover the entire range of products on the website.
These vouchers are ideal for friends and family as Christmas gifts.
All meats are delivered in our stylish sliver display box which also makes the range ideal for corporate gifts. Consider our range of dry aged steaks which are sure to impress.
Christmas Hampers
The website has just launched this years Christmas hampers featuring Free-Range Turkeys, artisan cranberry sauce and gourmet Irish Ham. (See Christmas offers)
Remember to get your orders in early as we will be filling all our delivery dates!
We will also be offering a very limited number of “bronze turkeys”, contact our customer for more details.
Dawn Chef is our standard range of vacuum packed and portion controlled Beef, Pork and Lamb products. The Dawn Chef product range includes minced, diced, carvery roasting joints and individually portioned steak cuts as well as fresh and frozen burgers.
Caledonia Crown is the leading provider of quality Scotch Beef in the British Isles. The finest beef cattle from prime Scottish herds, grass fed on Scotland's highlands provides the famous Scotch Beef from Caledonia Crown.
Nature's Meadow is a premium range of vacuum packed and portion controlled Beef and Lamb primal cuts, specifically tailored to the requirements of the retail market. Key features of this product range are and extensive grass based production system, specified breeds and specified maturation periods prior to release for sale.
"Straight to Plate" has been developed for the "Heat and Serve" market. This is a burgeoning market in the UK and is estimated to be valued at £100 million. Easy entertaining is assured with our new Ready to Heat range. We have taken all the fuss out of cooking by doing all the hard work for you! 
"Convenience without compromise" is at the core of these products. Ready to cook foods have found a dedicated target market in the consumer who lacks the inclination to cook everyday meals from scratch. The UK market for Ready to Cook foods reached an estimated £567 million in 2004 and sales doubled in the period 1999-2004. This exceptionally strong growth is due to a high level of NPD in the market. Pre-marinated, pre-basted portions with topping sauces have emerged as the leading segment in terms of value sales and accounts for 45% of the market. (Mintel, 2004).
In Ridings Reserve we produce our mature English Beef that consistently performs to today's high standards. We achieved this standard through tried and trusted traditional butchery methods. Each carcass is carefully selected by weight and grade, to your own personal requirements. The result is succulent, tender English beef, which has the texture and flavor expected from a traditionally matured English product.
The Aberdeen Angus beef breed is world renowned for flavour, tenderness and succulence. Our Black Angus brand is a matured, select range of Aberdeen Angus beef which derives its unique taste from a natural grass based diet. Subsequently, a program of traditional "dry aging" maturation offers a unique combination of natural processes.
West Cork Beef is produced from cattle reared on a natural diet, grazing extensively in fresh open fields during Irelands long grass season. Carcases and Primal cuts are selected based on high marbling and eating quality and matured on the bone prior to preparation.
Highland Meats is an extensive range of vacuum packed Beef, Lamb and Pork primals. Produced in Scotland, the range includes mincing and diced products as well as individual multi-vac joints and primals suitable for the retail and cash and carry sectors
L'Ile D'Erin is a select range of Irish Beef cuts, specifically chosen to meet the needs of the modern French consumer. Produced in our factory outside Tours, the most popular cuts are packed in individual, convenient portions and have a shelf life of 21 days.
Our organic range of Beef and Lamb is sourced directly from selected farms who are dedicated to producing a superior meat product with all the natural characteristics which are associated with organic farming. Produced in the Yorkshire Ridings, we continue to grow sales of this range as an important part of our overall product offering
In addition to the traditional herding, traditional butchery and traditional beef maturation which is characteristic of the renowned Caledonia Crown Extra Matured range, we add the premium selection of Aberdeen Angus. Need we say any more...