Our Classes
BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR CLASSES TAKING PLACE IN NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2023.
TO BUY A VOUCHER FOR OUR BUTCHERY CLASSES:
You can now purchase vouchers for our butchery classes via the following links:
Click here if you live within London/M25
Click here if you live outside of London
Alternatively, please contact Sara on 07718 790413
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NEW CLASSES AVAILABLE:
CHRISTMAS CLASS – TURKEY
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Friday 24th November 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 8 places available
Sunday 26th November 2023 Moxon Street 16:00-19:30 - 7 places available
Thursday 30th November 2023 Borough Market 18:00-21:30 - 9 places available
Saturday 9th December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22.30 - 10 places available
Monday 18th December 2023 Borough Market 18:00-21:30 - 10 places available
CHRISTMAS CLASS – PORK
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Friday 17th November 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 8 places available
Tuesday 28th November 2023 Borough Market 18:00-21:30 - 8 places available
Saturday 16th December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 10 places available
THREE BIRD ROAST CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Friday 1st December 2023 Borough Market 18:00-21:30 - 8 places available
STEAK CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Thursday 23rd November 2023 Borough Market 13:00-16:30 - 4 places available
Thursday 30th November 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22.30 - 6 places available
Sunday 3rd December 2023 Moxon Street 16:00-19:30 - 10 places available
Friday 8th December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 7 places available
Saturday 16th December 2023 Borough Market 16:00-19:30 - 10 places available
BEEF FOREQUARTER CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Saturday 2nd December 2023 Borough Market 16:00-19:30 - 12 places available
BEEF CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Friday 1st December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 8 places available
Saturday 2nd December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 10 places available
Sunday 17th December 2023 Moxon Street 16:00-19:30 - 4 places available
SAUSAGE MAKING CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Saturday 25th November 2023 Borough Market 16:00-19:30 - 7 places available
GAME CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Monday 27th November 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 2 places available
Monday 11th December 2023 Moxon Street 19:00-22:30 - 11 places available
PORK CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Friday 8th December 2023 Borough Market 18:00-21:30 - 10 places available
LAMB CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Sunday 10th December 2023 Moxon Street 16:00-19:30 - 10 places available
POULTRY CLASS
(For more information about class content, and for booking, please email Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk)
Saturday 27th January 2024 Borough Market 16:00-19:30 - 10 places available
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TO BUY A VOUCHER FOR OUR BUTCHERY CLASSES:
You can now purchase vouchers for our butchery classes via the following links:
Click here if you live within London/M25
Click here if you live outside of London
Alternatively, please contact Sara on 07718 790413
BUTCHERY CLASS VOUCHER A: £195.00
Corresponds to the value of our Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Sausage Making, and Game classes or as part payment towards Steak Beef Forequarter, Beef, BBQ, 3 Bird Roast and Christmas classes.
BUTCHERY CLASS VOUCHER B: £225.00
Corresponds to the value of our Steak, Beef Forequarter, Beef, BBQ, 3 Bird Roast and Christmas classes.
Once you have made your purchase online, please contact Sara on butcheryclasses@thegingerpig.co.uk or 07718 790413 (Mon-Fri) and she will book the class for you or arrange to send out a physical voucher.
For last minute vouchers, we would like to remind you that we can also provide you with e-vouchers via email, if requested.
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A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO OUR BUTCHERY CLASSES
A fabulous gift experience for those who would like a hands-on lesson in meat and traditional butchery skills. This is an opportunity for our guests to try their hand at light butchery and learn more about where their meat comes from, pick up a new skill and get the most from each cut. We can promise a fun and relaxed evening hosted by some of our most experienced and charming butchers. Plus, there’s a two-course informal meal at the end and you get to take the substantial joint you have prepped or plentiful sausages you have made to feast on at home. Scroll down for more information on our classes.
*Please note - we normally release butchery class dates one month in advance (eg, August's dates will be released in late June) at busy times of year we may release two months at a time. If you cannot see the date you want in the future, email us, or check back with us in a few weeks. You can also sign newsletter at the bottom of our homepage or follow us on social media (Instagram or X formerly known as Twitter) to be reminded of future booking releases.
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For corporate or group bookings
Please call Sara on 07718 790413. We can accommodate 12-16 people in Moxon Street, Marylebone and 10-12 people in Borough Market. Unfortunately we cannot book out a class exclusively for less than the aforementioned numbers.
Pork
The humble pig is a hugely versatile animal; generous to the cook, a celebration of fat, flesh and flavour. It’s said that you can eat everything on a pig except for it’s squeak, and our butchers can certainly demonstrate as they take you through all the cuts. You’ll discover where your morning bacon comes from, what goes into our sausages, and which cuts will give you the best crackling. The class will centre around boning, rolling and tying a piece of pork loin, with whatever you create going home with you.
Locations: Marylebone
Price: £195.00
Book a class Buy a VoucherBeef
You’ll learn about dry-ageing and what to look for when buying beef. Then, it’s down to the butchery. Cattle provide the largest carcass that our butchers handle, so the focus is on the hefty, valuable central part of the animal where we find the sirloin, rump, rib eye and fillet. You’ll get stuck into a bit of butchery of your own, preparing a côte de boeuf joint from the rib to take home at the end of the class.
Locations: Marylebone
Price: £225.00
Book a class Buy a VoucherLamb
Aside from game, lamb is perhaps the most seasonal meat we sell, ranging from the delicate new season animals at Easter-time to the rich and robust hogget we sell from January to April. You’ll learn about the different breeds we sell, and how the move from mother’s milk to grass and moorland grazing alters the flavour of the meat. Our butchers will demonstrate breaking down a whole carcass, explaining the cuts and how to cook them as they go. The butchery segment of the class will see you rolling and tying your own shoulder of lamb to take away to enjoy at home.
Locations: Marylebone
Price: £195.00
Book a class Buy a VoucherPoultry
Whereas it’s quite tricky to practice your beef, pork or lamb butchery at home, poultry is completely open to the home cook. This class covers how to use the whole of the bird from breast to carcass, focusing on chicken, duck and guinea fowl, and the difference between French and English poultry. As well as lots of cooking tips, our butchers will show you how to prepare a proper chicken kiev, bone and roll a duck and spatchcock a French chicken.
Locations: Marylebone
Price: £195.00
Book a class Buy a VoucherGame
Our game classes are a choice of two depending on the season and availability of game. Our fur game (venison and rabbit) usually runs from February until September, whilst our class on feathered game (grouse, partridge and pheasant) takes the schedule from October to January. You’ll learn about the provenance of our game, how best to cook and prepare it as well as which seasonal ingredients and flavours are best with the meats. You’ll then do some butchery of your own, working either with a selection of game birds or preparing bones and rolled venison shoulder to enjoy at home.
Locations: Marylebone
Price: £195.00
Book a class Buy a VoucherSausages
Our sausage-making class is probably the most hands on (and potentially messy!) of our classes. Our butchers will tell you exactly what goes into a good sausage, as well as a number of nifty cooking tips. You’ll prepare various meats for the mincer as well as the perfect ingredient combinations for added flavour, before the fun part – handling the (often challenging) sausage filler, finishing up by linking the bangers like a pro. All the sausages you make (5kg in total!) will go home with you – enough for a summer full of barbecues or a winter of stews.
Locations: Borough Market
Price: £195.00
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