Lots of chances to get your pastrami, pulled pork, and other smoked meaty goodness this week:

Sunday 4/29 at Bluxome Street Winery’s Meet Market: 12noon to 4pm

Tuesday 5/1 at DaDa: 11:30am to 2pm

Wednesday 5/2 at The Window: 11am to 2pm

Thursday 5/3 at DaDa: 11:30am to 2pm

Friday 5/4 at The Window: 11am to 2pm

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to find out the daily menu. Come hungry and bring friends!

The month of December brings with it lots of opportunities for smoked meats and meaty treats. Here’s the latest in events and updates from Jablow’s Meats. As you can see, we are aiming to end the year on a bang:

Come to our 1st Pop-Up Restaurant – Saturday, December 3rd from 10:30-2pm
Final preparations are underway for our 1st ever pop-up restaurant this Saturday. We’re taking over Beast and the Hare in SF’s Mission District and serving up four meaty sandwiches featuring our signature bacon, pastrami, corned beef and sweet Italian sausage. Bring your friends and enjoy a tasty lunch, plus delicious naturally carbonated ginger ale courtesy of SodaCraft. Check our Facebook page for more details. We hope to see you there!

It’s Brisketfest! Wednesday, December 7th from 6-9pm
Calling all brisket fans! Jablow’s Meats will be showcasing our stuff at Brisketfest – a tribute to all things brisket – at Shotwell’s Bar (located on the corner of Shotwell and 22nd in SF) and you’re invited. We’ll be bringing our delicious NY-style pastrami on rye and serving up sandos alongside Slow Hand BBQ’s Texas-style brisket and Nute’s Thai curry brisket. Just the ticket for the mid-week dinner blues. Click here for all the event info.

Join us at the December New Taste Marketplace – Saturday, December 10th from 12-5
As always, the New Taste Marketplace is one of our favorite monthly events. Join us for the December market, grab a pastrami sandwich and pick up bacon to take home just in time for Sunday brunch. And for those of you placing holiday orders, the NTM will be a convenient pick up spot.

Place Your Holiday Orders Before December 17th
Our meaty treats make great holiday gifts. Place your orders by December 17th to ensure receipt before the holiday season. Go to our order page to place your order and we’ll contact you to discuss pick up. And great news for our out-of-town friends: we are also offering shipping outside of the bay area for an additional $20 on holiday orders! Contact jablowsmeats@gmail.com for more info.

Farmer’s Market Update:
Jablow’s Meats has just been approved to join our first farmer’s market! More details will be coming soon but for now we are working on obtaining all of the necessary permits required before we are ready to go.

As always, thanks for your support as we learn, grow and expand!

Happy holidays,
Dan and Ashley

Join us for our 1st popup restaurant on Saturday, December 3rd!

On Saturday, December 3rd, we’re taking over Beast and the Hare in SF’s Mission District and serving up four tasty sandwiches featuring our signature meats:

- Five spice powder bacon
- NY-style pastrami rubbed with black peppercorns and coriander
- Guinness-braised corned beef
- Sweet Italian sausage with fennel

Come with friends and come hungry! We hope to see you there.

Date:
Saturday, December 3

Location:
Beast and the Hare
1001 Guerrero St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Time:
10:30am – 2pm

Cash and credit accepted
Questions? Email Dan at jablowsmeats@gmail.com
Click here to RSVP

It’s almost time for Thanksgiving at Jablow’s Meats!

Amazing to think that Thanksgiving is around the corner – time sure flies when you’re building a meat empire! We’ve got a big announcement to share in this update, but first, a few quick notes on orders and the next New Taste Marketplace:

Place your Thanksgiving orders now:
In our family, Thanksgiving is the time for relaxing, watching football, and of course, eating a lot. To help make your Thanksgiving table even more delicious, we’re offering an assortment of our meaty treats for sale in November. Whether you want to dress your turkey in our homemade bacon, spice up your stuffing with our sweet Italian sausage, or take a break from the turkey to have a smoked pastrami or corned beef sandwich, we’ve got you covered! Check out our newly updated menu for more details. To streamline things, you can now order directly via our website using our handy-dandy new shopping cart.

Join us at the November New Taste Marketplace – Saturday, 11/19 from 12-5:
This month we’re heading to the New Taste Marketplace with one of our favorites sandwiches: NY-style pastrami with crispy cole slaw and creamy mustard aioli on fresh rye. We’ll also be selling our signature bacon to take home – just in time for Sunday brunch! And for those of you placing Thanksgiving orders, the NTM will be a convenient pick up location just before the holiday.

Coming Saturday, December 3rd – our 1st pop-up restaurant!
We’re excited to announce that on December 3rd, Jablow’s Meats will be hosting our very first pop-up event! We’ll be taking over Beast and the Hare, a San Francisco restaurant, and serving up a variety of our tasty, meaty sandwiches for lunch. Stay tuned for more details, but for now mark your calendars and be prepared to bring your appetites ­– we’ve got your lunch plans covered.

October wrap-up
October was a jam-packed month for us, with three big food events in two weeks! We demonstrated the basics of sausage making for hungry market-goers at the New Taste Marketplace (a huge shout-out to our friend Liz, pictured above, for volunteering her services that day); served pulled pork sandwiches at Old Skool Café’s jazz fundraiser; and cranked out over 300 portions of pastrami sandwiches at Koutali’s 25-An Unconventional Feast, a high-end food event. We also offered two deliveries of our meaty Sampler Packs, proving that smoked meat is even better when it’s delivered to your door! We’ve also made progress towards our goal of establishing a farmer’s market presence. Hopefully we’ll have some good news to share on that front soon.

As always, we’re so thankful for your support and enthusiasm, and we’re always eager to hear from you. Email us at jablowsmeats@gmail.com with questions, ideas or feedback. We hope to see you soon!

- Dan and Ashley

Last Saturday marked our 6th time appearance at the New Taste Marketplace. Quite a milestone considering that the NTM is a monthly market, meaning that we’ve been at this for over half a year now. Hard to believe but it feels like we’re practically old pros at this. We’ve been lucky to try out many different concepts and ideas at the NTM, serving BLTs, pastrami, and pulled pork sandwiches and offering various meats for sale by the pound. This time around we wanted to bring something new and exciting to the market and after some discussion with the market organizer, we decided that sausage making demos would make for a fun and educational afternoon for market attendees.

Our setup for this market was much bigger than previous markets. We used two 6′ tables and set up the demo on one side and a temporary Jablow’s Meats ‘shop’ on the other side. This was the first NTM where we didn’t offer sandwiches but we did bring a ton of tasty meaty treats for sale including bacon, pastrami, corned beef and of course, the subject of our demo, sweet Italian sausage.

A little diagram I used during the demo to show everyone where the ‘butt’ comes from (hint: it’s not where you think).

Also for the first time we took on additional help in the form of our good friend Liz, who was kind enough to volunteer her services in return for a full afternoon of sausage-making themed jokes.

Here I am holding court during the first of our two demos. People were genuinely excited to be in the audience – I heard many ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ throughout the 30 minute sessions, especially when it came time to actually stuff the sausage into casings.

Sausage stuffing 101 – it’s a lot easier to stuff the sausage all at once, then form individual links (as opposed to forming links as you stuff).

For having never led a sausage making demo in front of a group of 30 strangers, twice during the day, I’d say that everything went amazingly well. There was only one minor snafu to report – between the two demos, I cleaned all the grinder parts in the kitchen. By mistake I left the grinder blade in the sink and didn’t realize it until it was time to grind the meat during the 2nd demo. Luckily the blade was right where I left it – no harm done – though I did feel a little silly when I realized that the most important part of the grinder had gone missing right when I needed it the most.

Happy October from Jablow’s Meats!

Fall’s officially here and with it comes lots of football, colder weather and plenty of opportunities to get friends together for a delicious meal. Fall also means new events and new offers from Jablow’s Meats! Here’s the latest for October:

Join us for the basics of sausage making at the New Taste Marketplace – Saturday, 10/15 from 12-5:

The New Taste Marketplace is a must-attend food event in San Francisco, and we’ve enjoyed being regular vendors for the last 6 months. This Saturday we’re shaking things up and offering demos on how to grind, season and stuff pork sausage. The demos will begin at 1pm and again at 3pm. We’ll also be selling our signature bacon, pastrami, corned beef and sweet Italian sausage to take home. Come hungry and ready to learn!

Satisfy your pulled pork craving at the Bayview BBQ + Blues Festival – Saturday, 10/22 from 12-5:

The Old Skool Café is a youth-run supper club that provides job training programs for at-risk San Francisco youth. On October 22nd, we’ll be supporting them at their BBQ and Blues Festival with – what else – pulled pork sandwiches and hot Italian sausages! We hope you’ll join us for delicious smoked meats and great local jazz, all for a good cause. Join the fun from 12-5 at 1429 Mendell Street in SF, just off of 3rd Street between Oakdale and Palou.
Last call for smoked meat in October:

Rounding out the month, we’re doing one more home delivery of smoked meaty treats on October 28th – right to your door! This sampler pack boasts three pounds of our newest menu items: pork loin, sweet Italian sausage and corned beef. Check our website to learn more and place an order.

As always, we’re so thankful for your support and enthusiasm and we’re always eager to hear from you. Email us at jablowsmeats@gmail.com with questions, ideas or feedback. We hope to see you soon!

- Dan and Ashley