Rhode Island Beef & Veal

This place is just gross! Dried blood all over, flies and the smell alone made me sick! There meet is not even appealing!!! How is this place up to code?!

Smell in this place is unreal. Flies everywhere despite frigid outdoor temperatures. Dried blood on scales and cash register. Cleanliness was of grave concern. Definitely could not bring myself to purchase anything that I would consider eating.

Luckily there are only a few reviews on here, and I“m not trying to insult anyone’s comments, but this place needs to be shut down due to cleanliness.
First off, they had many issues with the town of Johnston, i’ve personally been to a couple of the town council meetings and they have had massive problems with storing and refrigerating the «waste» of the animals properly. In addition, they have had issues with delivery of animals outside of business hours which, whatever… not that big of a deal, but the underlying matter is they don’t do things the right way.
Lastly, I actually looked at their website, prices, etc, and decided i needed to put all that shit behind me and check this place out. No offense to anyone who has been there, but you must be blind if you didn’t see the amount of filth and unsanitary issues in this place.
The scale for meat was covered in DRY blood… the f*ckers don’t even use plastic sheets when weighing their cuts. They just throw it on, and let all of that blood and raw chicken juice marinate. Gross.
The smell… lets just say, its bad. I get it, any place that butchers pigs, cows, and chicken, especially chicken, is going to have some sort of smell to it. This place smelled rotten.
The kicker of this joke of an establishment, is that they were giving bags of chicken away with your order the day I walked in there. I believe they were giving away drumsticks. These drumsticks were in a large, thin, plastic garbage bag behind the meat cases. Out in the open, not refrigerated, nothing. Just a disgusting garbage bag full of raw chicken legs. God know what the surface temp of the chicken was, and god knows how much bacteria was on there.
Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble… but I am not exaggerating here. I’m not one of those hippie animal lovers who protest against butchers and slaughter houses… in fact, I encourage it because market prices are going through the god damn roof. But this place is disgusting, and i would NEVER buy one piece of meat from this piece of shit business. If they are dumb enough to keep bags of chicken out in the open, not properly refrigerated, and they have steaks touch the same thing as chicken (perfect when i love med rare steaks)… you think they give two shits if they cut a piece of steak with a knife that may have just butchered a chicken?
Stay clear if you have even the slightest concern of what you put in your body.

There are only a few places where I will buy meat. Let’s face it, after reading about the Meat Industry and «Pink Slime» you need to be very careful.
Now, there are two option left. Whole Foods or a local butcher. Whole Foods meat is great and they assure me it is great, but this great feeling comes at a great price. Yeah, I want to buy some nice filets, but for that price I could easily order it at a halfway decent restaurant. I have student loans, iPhone bills, and sports apparel to buy. I can’t waste my money on meat! Absurd!
This is where Rl Beef and Veal comes in. They have the quality meat products at prices I can afford. I’ll take a break from work and head over. I drop $ 50.00 and walk away with a months worth of grillable goodness.
10 pounds of Chicken Filets for $ 20.00? Awesome. Grill some up and lunch for me & the wife is taken care of. Put it on salads, in sandwiches, in burritos, etc. Lunch is fun again.
The beef is fresh. You can literally smell the cows as you walk in. Skirt steaks, filet mignon, flank steaks, and ground beef right before your eyes.
The personalities behind the counter are great too. You can tell a lot about the product by the people selling it to you. The people at Rl Beef and Veal liek what they do. They know meat.
Bonus: Rl Beef and Veal is a NY Yankee friendly establishment