New meat market in Franfort

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Hopefully Meats on Main will offer the same high quality meats that Melrose Market did. The area needs a decent meat market. The market on Main St in Mohawk was always known for it's fresh high quality meat. When they closed it left Melrose as the lone premier source for fresh cut high quality meats in that portion of the valley.

When we are in the area we always spend time at Kathy's Aunt's camp on Canadarago Lake. We have stopped at both Melrose and the Mohawk Market in the past for meat to cook on the grill at the camp. Always high quality and both stores would custom cut steaks to your specs. It looks like Meats on Main will be a deli also and I predict that they will become a popular place to go for a sub. Being a carnivore at heart it is my opinion every town should have a source for high quality meat, and every town should have a good deli.

Every town should also have a great neighborhood bakery. When Friendly Bake Shop in Frankfort closed it left a sad void too. The valley was left with the nearest family run bakery in either Utica or the White Rose Bakery in Little Falls.

www.wktv.com/news/friendly-bake-shop-to-re-open-friday/article_120e730e-4da3-11ee-bf04-430610a152d0.html

Thank goodness they younger generation has re-opened the bakery. Great stuff. When we lived on Herkimer Road I would occasionally drive there for dozen fresh cinnamon sugar donuts when I left work at the OD to take home for breakfast.

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I'm going to have to check out that new market. I've just about given up on finding quality meat products in these big box stores. Earlier this week I picked up a couple of N.Y. Strip steaks from Hannaford's & they were like shoe leather, even our dog wouldn't eat it. I cut off a couple pieces for her & she stuck up her nose & let it sit in her dish. No kiddng. Lol.

The only other meat market that I know of is DeSantis but that's up on Rte. 12 in Mapledale.

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DeSantis has outstanding meat, and there is still Hap's and Pulaski meat markets, but Meelan's was one of my faves and they retired and closed the store. I have also bought meat at different times from Mazzaferro's in Rome. their meats are excellent. That is where we always bought the meats for the firehouse kitchen when I was a firefighter. They also have great sausage.

Have they moved to the new store yet? I know they were working out of their old location on Mill Street after the store on Black River Blvd burned.

[BHU]

I forgot about Mazzaferro's. Yes they opened a few weeks ago. There used to be a Mazzaferro's on Mohawk St in Utica a few years ago. I used to go there for the Italian sausage & deli meats, I don't know if it's the same family.