Wild Willy’s, a burger joint in Watertown, is now selling Hardwick beef! Last week it started selling the Wrangler Burger — sustainable, grass-fed beef from New England + cheese from Vt + tomato from Maine.
The Hardwick web site says that Wild Willy’s and Lionette’s are the only places in Boston where you can get their beef. But we know The Garden at the Cellar (Central Sq) also makes burgers with grass-fed, localish beef; the Lionettes’ restaurant, Garden of Eden, does too. And we’ve been told that Formaggio Kitchen also uses Hardwick in its prepared food — though you can’t buy it directly at the shoppe.
Hardwick is based, ahem, in Hardwick, Mass — but it’s actually a consortium of farms from around New England that all feed their animals grass — not chewing gum, not corn, not drugs or hormones. And Hardwick beef is huge in NYC. Boston, we’ve been told, has been a hard market for Hardwick to penetrate.
Hmph.
Tags: Meat, restaurants
Hmmmmmmm. And… Hmmmmmm.