Feinkostmetzgerei Schmidt

The Schmidt family butchery has stood in Koblenz since 1806. For more than 20 years Uwe Schmidt has led the family firm at Alte Heer Strasse 34. He describes himself as part of a new generation of butchers who follow quality from the field to the plate. The shop calls its work meisterhafte Delikatessen, natürlich hausgemacht. The house speciality is Rheinischer Saftschinken, a Rhineland ham cured in the shop's own manufaktur. Dry-aged steaks mature in a ripening cabinet on the premises. The sausage specialities and preserving jars come from the same in-house kitchen using family recipes. Sourcing rests on farmers and producers the family knows personally, chosen for animal welfare from rearing through low-stress slaughter to whole-animal use. Transparency and the origin of the meat sit at the centre of the work, balanced with what the shop calls new international flavour impulses. The result is a counter where old Rhineland tradition and current tastes are handled by the same pair of hands.