Between Darussalam Bookshop and Captain's Fish Bar, at 228 High Street is another one of our many proper butchers shops in Walthamstow where the meat doesn't all come wrapped in sellaphane. (Tel 0208 521 0115). As the name suggests, they sell halal meat, with fair discounts for medium sized quantities: 5lb of mince was today being offered at £6.99; 5lb of topside of beef costs £11.99.
They offer some exotica: South African Boerworks sausages in plain, peri peri, garlic and pepper variations. Best 'Currymeat' costs £4.99 for 5lb, which seems quite reasonable for such a rare species, if this isn't just mutton dressed as lamb.
As well as selling the meat, East London Halal Meat have joined Al-Balal Halal in the telecommunications industry, offering phone cards from Eurocity, Jamaica Tel, Zindabad, Happy Tel, Spider, Cobra, Quality, Talk Home and Lebara Mobile.
Purchasers of non-Halal meat who also want to avoid a supermarket may like to try out Terry's or Parson's.