Fleisher's Gets a Food & Drink Award from TONY

Photo via Time Out New YorkFire up the BBQ's, meatheads—Fleisher's was named "Best Out-of-Town Import" at Time Out New York's Food & Drink Awards this week. 

The upstate original is a mainspring of the artisanal butcher movement (the Meat Hook’s Tom Mylan, among many others, got his start as an apprentice at the shop), and its owners, Joshua and Jessica Applestone, are true snout-to-rump evangelists. But their Brooklyn outpost is less a pulpit than a neighborhood base camp for carnivores, supplying not just gorgeous cuts of raw pasture-raised meats, but also rotisserie chickens, house-made charcuterie and local dairy. In choosing Fleisher’s over scene-courting colts, you’ve made an important point: Buzzy eateries come and go, but a great butcher has real lasting value as a community cornerstone.

Congrats, Fleisher's.  Who wants a burger?