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There is a kind of shop where the meat has an address. Where the person behind the case can tell you which valley the pork came from, and how the lamb ate. Full Basket is one of those — a family counter in Uptown New Westminster, with farms standing behind every tray.
The work begins a long way from Sixth Avenue. Beef in the foothills of Alberta. Lamb on the pastures of Salt Spring Island. Pork and poultry a short drive up the Fraser Valley. The family doesn't raise it — they choose it, drive for it, and cut it by hand.
Fraser Valley · swap your own photo
The farms do the raising.
The family does the cutting.
What that buys you is a straight answer. Ask what's good this week and you'll hear it — not a label, a sentence. Bring a recipe, a holiday, a freezer to fill, and the counter is built for the ask. Whole, half, by the cut, tied for the oven, ground for the pan.
It is, in the end, a small basket of decisions made on your behalf, every day, before the doors open. That's the case worth standing at.
