Cuts featured this week:
Flat Iron: Chef Jonah’s Pick
The Chef believes this to be the best cut of the animal. Not only is it exceptionally tender with great marbling, because it is against the shoulder and close to the bone it also has great flavor. It will appear on the menu starting this Friday, July 13th through the weekend.

Currently on the menu:
Tagliata of Magruder beef with Tuscan kale, fork-mashed potato, capers, and sugo

Carne cruda with Castelvetrano olives, Calabrian chili, and parsley

Starting Wednesday, July 11th the kitchen will also be making the bolognese sauce with meat from this same animal.

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Late last month Chef Jonah took delivery of our first whole grass-fed beef animal of the season from rancher Mac Magruder in Mendocino County. (Beef season is when the grass is at its peak for finishing cattle.) We’ll be receiving two of Mac’s steers per month through September. We can serve the best beef this way: Mac’s beef is exceptional – even among grass-fed contenders, we are able to dry-age the meat to our own specifications, we get to use the whole animal, and, of course, these humanely raised steers are robustly healthy.

With all the talk about whole-animal butchery, there are very few places that will buy whole beef animals in the Bay Area from our great local ranchers. Only a handful of butcher shops in the greater Bay Area buy whole beef and we believe we are the only restaurant at this time with the facilities and knowledge to buy beef as a whole animal. As a result of such a paucity of outlets, local ranchers face the challenge of a grossly inadequate market for their product.

As part of Oliveto’s It’s Complicated series of forums, we’re planning a September event that will consider that problem and other huge hurdles in establishing a thriving, local, small-producer beef economy with good animal-welfare protocols in Northern California. In preparation for the beef forum, throughout the summer, we’ll be passing along information about what we think those challenges are. Stay tuned! In the meantime, come on down for some of the best local grass-fed beef available.