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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican
Price: $$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: The Rolling Lawns Farm milk they serve and sell in-house is pasteurized and homogenized. Raw milk is not allowed to be sold retail in Missouri (it has to be purchased direct from the farm). While pasture-raised lamb, chicken, beef, and turkey from Missouri farms practicing good animal husbandry is spotlighted throughout their menu, there are plenty of other offerings as well.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
Comments: They deep fry in tallow. Also, tallow is also used for everything cooked on their flat top grill, such as fried eggs.
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
Comments: All dressings are made in-house, most are made with olive oil but there are a few they make with 'salad oil'. Always ask!
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
Comments: They make their own lard biscuits. All other bread comes from Companion, which does not have a genuine sourdough bread but it is a local bakery and sources from small growers and producers whenever possible.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Comments: For dessert, they make shortbread cookies and ice cream cookie sandwiches. The cookies are made with sugar. The ice cream is also made in-house and is sweetened with both sugar and honey.
Rating Created by:
Marilee Sauer
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Location & Contact
2733 Sutton Blvd
Maplewood, MO
Boylard's Meat and Provisions is a whole animal butcher shop, a casual restaurant, and a local food store, owned by "chef turned butcher’ Chris Bolyard. Boylard’s also offers classes in butchering and sausage-making; plus they cater. Stop in for a warm-seasoned cup of their bone broth, some tallow fries, or a locally produced kombucha, beer, or soda. Locally grown vegetables. Their menu has American favorites with their own unique twist plus many traditional favorites from other countries! They ferment some vegetables while others are pickled and they add great flavor to many of their burgers and sandwiches. Many of their crafted products can also be purchased and taken home, including rendered animal fats, vegetable ferments, organ meats, bone broths, soups, sauces, spices and eggs. The website gives background for each of the farms where they purchase their animals and eggs. And, the restaurant has a large viewing window into the cold room so you can watch the butcher.