Alexander's Prime Meats
San Gabriel, CA (6580 N. San Gabriel Blvd, 91775) -- operates inside Howie's Market, USA
howiesalexanders.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
Caveats
CONFIRMED at Shiro (South Pasadena): Shiro's own live about page (restaurantshiro.com/about.html, wayback-present since at least 2023-10-18) names Alexander's Prime Meats as the source of its prime ribeye and prime filet mignon. BRIEF FLAG RESOLVED: the source text reads '...sourced from one of Los Angeles' best butchers, Alexander's Prime Meats, where the meat is dry-aged in-house for 3 weeks' -- 'where' grammatically refers to Alexander's Prime Meats (the nearest antecedent, and the only location named in the clause), and this is independently corroborated: Alexander's OWN Facebook page states 'our in house dry aged beef', and an independent grilling-forum eyewitness account describes seeing beef 'dry-aging behind glass in large coolers' at the San Gabriel location. So 'dry-aged in-house' is ALEXANDER'S process (at their San Gabriel premises), not Shiro's -- read precisely per brief instruction. No sourcing/traceability certifications (organic, animal-welfare, breed-specific) claimed by either Shiro or Alexander's for this relationship; entity_kind classified as 'processor' (matches existing farms-table vocabulary for meat purveyors like Creekstone Farms, Greater Omaha Packing -- no 'purveyor' kind exists in this schema).
Butcher shop / meat processor operating since 1960 as Alexander's Prime Meats, located inside Howie's Market in San Gabriel, CA (now branded 'Howie's Market & Alexander's Prime Meats'). Dry-ages beef in-house on premises. Not a farm/producer -- a processor/purveyor that Shiro (South Pasadena) names as the source of its ribeye and filet mignon.
Products
prime beefdry-aged beefwagyuseafoodporkpoultrydeli
Practices
in-house dry-aging (own premises, per own Facebook page and independent eyewitness forum account)
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- restaurantshiro.com ↗
first-party, currently live (wayback-confirmed present since at least 2023-10-18): 'our prime charbroiled Ribeye and prime Filet Mignon (sourced from one of Los Angeles' best butchers, Alexander's Prime Meats, where the meat is dry-aged in-house for 3 weeks)' -- Shiro's own about page naming the purveyor
- howiesalexanders.com ↗
Alexander's Prime Meats' own site (operating as Howie's Market & Alexander's Prime Meats), 6580 N. San Gabriel Blvd, San Gabriel CA 91775; press mentions (LA Times, LA Magazine, Jonathan Gold/Pasadena Weekly, CBS2/KCAL9 Best Butchers)
- facebook.com ↗
Alexander's own Facebook page: 'Serving the San Gabriel Valley since 1960 ... our in house dry aged beef' -- first-party confirmation the dry-aging happens at ALEXANDER'S premises, resolving the brief's flagged ambiguity in Shiro's about-page wording ('where' refers to Alexander's, not Shiro)
- tvwbb.com ↗
independent third-party (grilling/BBQ forum) eyewitness account: 'cutting meat from sides of beef that you can see dry-aging behind glass in large coolers' at Alexander's San Gabriel location -- independent corroboration of in-house dry-aging at the purveyor, not the venue