"What carnivore in your life wouldn’t appreciate receiving a 30- to 35-pound beef rib as a gift? But the signature holiday offering at Barons Meats, which has a location in Alameda and another in Noe Valley, isn’t just a big hunk of meat; it’s also a service and a storage space rental: Call to reserve the cut known as the “107 Rib” and the butcher shop will dry age the meat over a period of several weeks and store it for your lucky gift recipient until they’re ready to come pick it up — either one funky, gloriously beefy, custom-cut dry-aged rib eye steak at a time, or as a whole prime rib roast. At $14.99 a pound, you’ll wind up paying around $500 for one of these monsters, but it’s a statement gift. And that statement is: “Please invite me over for Christmas Eve dinner.”" - Becky Duffett
