A small herd, whole-carcass butcher shop on the corner of Newington Green, Stella’s is known for its excellent quality produce, incredibly aesthetic decor (featuring two-tone pastel interiors and neon lights shaped like hanging carcasses in the window) and an events programme more befitting of a Bib Gourmand-winning small plates spot than somewhere you go to buy pork chops.
For a while, it turned into a listening bar called System on weekends, serving up natural wines, craft beer and charcuterie while a rotation of local DJs played vinyl on a Tannoy speaker system from 1976. More recently, it’s pivoted to a Tartare Bar, where patrons can sample nori cones filled with a variety of house-made tartares, perhaps with a glass or two of low-intervention Cabernet Franc.
And as well top quality meat and bougie pantry staples (organic butter beans, raw honey, ‘ferments’) Stella’s does a banging selection of meaty merch; reckon you could rock a butchery-themed footie scarf? You can cop one right here.
The place is basically about as far away as you can get from the butcher shops of your childhood, staffed by sinister, ruddy-faced men with podgy hands and bloody aprons. Frankly, we had no idea butchery could be quite so chic.