The Healthy Butcher Downtown

The Healthy Butcher is a “go-to” for those looking for Toronto’s best organic meat and gourmet groceries. The Healthy Butcher has quickly grown to meet the appetite of discerning customers, offering Toronto’s best selection of Certified Organic, Naturally-Raised, 100% Grassfed and Local Meat, Fresh Organic Produce, Gourmet Prepared Foods and Organic Foodstuffs. We are your friendly neighbourhood butcher, and ensure your food is produced the way nature intended. Now also offering home delivery via Toronto’s best eGrocer RealFoodToronto.com!

Established in 2005.
Organic food is not a novelty… it was the past and will be the future. Eating fruits, vegetables, grains, or meats grown with pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, antibiotics, and other unnatural chemicals is ludicrous and unsustainable. Do you remember the days when you could walk into your local butcher shop to buy fresh meat grown locally by a farmer who cared about his animals? When the cows would graze in large pastures? When the chickens had access to both indoors & outdoors and had time to sleep? And when growth was determined by the animals eating habits, not growth hormones and antibiotics. For most of us, unfortunately, the answer is no. Industrialization over the last few decades has brought us to this day of antibiotic stuffed, water injected, assembly-line cut, pre-packaged meat. The Healthy Butcher aims to restore an area of the food industry that has wrongly disappeared. We are your good ‘ole fashion butcher.

Mario and Tara F.
Business Owner
Former Lawyer and Investment Banker, Mario and Tara left their large Bay Street Firms to do the unimaginable – open an organic butcher shop. The Healthy Butcher was born out of their frustration of the difficulty finding good quality, fresh organic meat in Toronto and the difficulty of finding good quality prepared foods to eat in the comfort of their own home when their work schedules didn’t allow for enough time to spend cooking.
So, they used their business savvy to negotiate a deal with long-time owner and furniture store operator Sol Borenstein to buy 565 Queen St West. in the heart of The Fashion District. After restoring the building to its original 1890 beauty, their goal is to provide downtown Toronto residents with a place they can trust to sell only the best organic meats and gourmet prepared foods that will bring a passion for food to their patrons’ dinner tables.
The Healthy Butcher now has 3 locations in Toronto and Kitchener, Ontario.