Half (Side)
A full side of beef — every primal, cut exactly your way.
- Hanging weight
- ~400 lb
- In your freezer
- 240–280 lb
- Price / lb hanging
- $5.50
- Freezer space
- 8 cu ft
≈ $2,200.00
Deposit today: $400.00
Reserve a side
Cut at St. Lawrence Market · Toronto
Local beef, cut your way, delivered to your freezer.
Reserve a side (half the animal) or a quarter of Ontario beef — or share a side with neighbours. Our butcher cuts it to your sheet, vacuum-seals every package, and we deliver it frozen to your door.
Cut & wrapped at St. Lawrence Market
Inspected, local Ontario beef
Custom cut sheet, your way
Delivered frozen across the GTA
Three steps
From pasture to your freezer
Step 1
Choose your size
Half, split quarter, front or hind quarter — pick the harvest date that suits you.
Step 2
Customize your cuts
Walk through each primal and choose steaks, roasts, stew or ground. Or let the butcher decide.
Step 3
We deliver it frozen
Vacuum-sealed, labelled and frozen solid, dropped at your door in a booked window.
Our home at the market
Cut where Toronto has shopped for meat since 1803.
Every side and quarter we sell is broken down by hand at St. Lawrence Market, the heart of Old Town Toronto and home to generations of butchers, fishmongers and farmers. We bring that same old-market craft to your freezer: your cuts, your thickness, your way.
Meet Our Butcher →A little history
Two centuries of market butchers
1803
Lieutenant Governor Peter Hunter proclaims a weekly public market at King and Jarvis — the start of St. Lawrence Market.
1845
Toronto's first purpose-built City Hall opens on the site. Its walls still stand inside today's South Market.
Early 1900s
The market is rebuilt around the old City Hall under a great steel-truss roof.
1970s
Torontonians rally to save the market from demolition.
2012
National Geographic names St. Lawrence Market the world's best food market.
Today
Your side of beef is cut here, by hand.
Choose your portion
Sizes and estimated prices
A side is half the animal. Prices are per pound of hanging weight; you take home roughly 60–70% of it as packaged beef. Add a $100 breakdown fee per side (split across shares) and $30 delivery, or pick up free at the market.
Split Quarter
Half front, half hind — shared with another customer, balanced variety.
- Hanging weight
- ~200 lb
- In your freezer
- 120–140 lb
- Price / lb hanging
- $5.50
- Freezer space
- 4 cu ft
≈ $1,100.00
Deposit today: $250.00
Reserve a split quarterFront Quarter
Roasts, braising cuts and lots of ground beef. Best value per pound.
- Hanging weight
- ~200 lb
- In your freezer
- 120–140 lb
- Price / lb hanging
- $5.50
- Freezer space
- 4 cu ft
≈ $1,100.00
Deposit today: $250.00
Reserve a front quarterHind Quarter
The steak lover's quarter — loin, sirloin and round.
- Hanging weight
- ~200 lb
- In your freezer
- 120–140 lb
- Price / lb hanging
- $5.50
- Freezer space
- 4 cu ft
≈ $1,100.00
Deposit today: $250.00
Reserve a hind quarterWhy buy by the side
Better beef, better value, fewer trips
A better price per pound than retail
You buy the whole side at one price — including the cuts that usually carry a premium.
You know where your beef comes from
One farm, one animal, one inspected abattoir. We tell you the tag number.
Cut exactly how you like it
Thickness, pack sizes, roasts, patties, bones — it's your sheet.
Stocked for months
A half feeds a family of four for most of a year.
Questions
The things people ask first
Everything else is on the FAQ page — or call us, we like talking about beef.
Ready to fill the freezer?
It takes about five minutes to build your cut sheet. Toronto & the GTA.
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