Vic's Meat Market

Brilliant strategy... Vic's Meat is literally right beside the Sydney Fish Market. I reckon its an excellent idea...put a butcher right next to a fish market. Since its the only other place to buy meat within a few kilometers it does well. Lots to choose from; all kinds of cuts and a variety of meats as well ranging from several types of Beef, Lamb, Pork to Roo Sausages. A very healthy selection. Metatarian heaven...Awesomeness! In addition they have all kinds of condiments, rubs and spices for your Carnivore needs...

My partner isn't the biggest seafood fan so we walked across the car park to get him a little something to eat before the rest of us chowed down on all the oysters and crab we could stuff into our bellies. Walking into the cool room was actually pretty cool. There are so many different kinds of meat, marinated and dressed in all different ways. The staff here is also really friendly. Making sure that if we had any questions, they were there for us. Unfortunately, we were just perusing and headed out fairly quick to the restaurant side of the building. Ordering was super easy. He got a brisket burger with fries. It was more what I'd call a pulled brisket sandwich but it was very delicious. The slaw on there was really good. The French fries were killer. We happened to order some fries with our seafood and they just couldn't compare to the yummy seasoned fries at Vic's Meat. Yum!!!

Meats had good flavor. Not enough time to visit a 2nd time before I left and try something else . But will again when I return.

I wanted to try some Wagyu steak while in Sydney, and since we were staying in a hotel with a kitchen, I stopped by Vic's for some meat to cook. Vic's is located at the Fish Market, but away from the hustle and bustle of the fish stalls. After looking at the selections of steak, I settled for the Wagyu Scotch fillet 5+. Although my hotel room had a full kitchen, the cookery wasn't the greatest. However, I had salt, pepper, and a pan, that is all you really need with a good steak. It was not covered in fat like the Kobe beef that you see in the pictures or on television, but it was really good. It was definitely one of the best and most tender steaks that I have had before, at a decent price as compared to the States. If you are looking for a great meal, head to Vic's for the steaks and pair it with some fresh seafood at the fish market.

A meat shop in the Sydney fish market? that's brilliant! What's even more brilliant is inside the Smokehouse/Grill is a small counter that is their Wagyu Bar. If it wasnt from the folks at Aria, I would have never known about this. You sit around the counter like a combo old school sushi, teppan or izakaya space in tokyo. The chef speaks like 5 languages and his south american assistant speaks 3. Crazy right? I guess they're poised for whatever type of tourist hits them up. But it's completely uncrowded and only 3 other people sat with us for lunch. Rangers, Blackmore, and many other fine Australian Kobe lineage beef was on service and it was all delicious. Im going to say that compared to what I have had in Japan, Hobart Beed maybe the best price performance value in the world now. Service is super friendly and the food is superb. Great little secret in the market!

Delicious. Do yourself a favor and go here along with the fish market. Get yourself some surf and turf. We did the pork belly burger, potato salad and burnt ends with a beer and red wine. Everything was amazing. The burnt ends were so good. I could eat them everyday! My wine was even good. The guy working there suggested it and it was good and inexpensive. The staff was nice and so helpful. If we would have not done the fish market, we would have selected our own steak from the butcher for them to cook but we didn't have enough stomach room for that. Such a cool and unique place!

One would usually associate Sydney Fish Markets with seafood. One needs to know that is not necessarily the case. Vic's meats have also set up a BBQ restaurant in this location. Although it is removed from all of the fish mongers, it is set up in its own space on the left as you enter the carpark. There was ample parking available and much to our suprise, it was free. The equipment used to cook in this place is impressive massive smoker used put out large quantities of slow smoked meats. This is also a licensed venue so you can enjoy some beverages whilst savouring some BBQ meats. We had heard many good things about the cheese burgers, unfortunately they were too popular on the day and they had sold out as had the beef ribs. However we did sample the pulled pork burger, served with the house slaw, a quality option that disappeared pretty wuickly. The brisket burger was also ordered and was tasty. The brisket also being pulled threw us a little. The pulled pork and beef brisket looked very similar making it easy to mix up. Being low and slow BBQ we had to go with the pork ribs which came off the bone easily and had a flavoursome rub. Accompanying this was pickles and slaw. We also shared aa few sides that impressed us the most. The burnt ends with beans and truffle taters. Could have snacked on these all night with some beers. A quality BBQ joint close to the city, easy to get to and plenty of parking. Staff were friendly. The joint could do with a bit more atmosphere, but good for a BBQ feed.

Great BBQ (hot food side), I tried their waygu beef burger & it was delicious! Came here on NYE and it was surprisingly not too busy. There was an on-going line but there was always an empty table the whole time I was there. Staff was friendly , which is nice. On the other side, they sell cold meat , quite a large variety for a small shop. The wagyu steak looked really good (and expensive). I will definitely come back to buy some cuts to try next time!

Meat. They have a fancy walk in butchery where you can see the butcher people butchering. This aint no supermarket meat aisle, its the real deal. It looks expensive and kinda is. But this meat is so gosh darn good, it's worth the trek. They also have a Smoker/ meat gorging facility just outside. I got the smoked beef rib, which was around $32, thinking I could eat it all on my own. I was wrong. Thankfully they let me have a take away container to haul my sorry, defeated arse back home to chew on it another day. They also sell Young Henry's tinnies ( but who doesnt, these days?) for about the standard 7 rods a pop price. Sit and gorge or some protein whilst looking out over the fish market.

Picked up some free range kangaroo steak for a great deal! Super friendly staff, and a nice, calm atmosphere compared to the fish market across the street.

IT was like watching a sophisticated caveman in a suit eat (and we were technically in a "cave"). The Apprentice decided to order the $85 Emperor's Cut steak sandwich - a 150g piece of prime Rangers Valley wagyu -a wonderful cut of scotch fillet with a nine-plus marbling score (which sells at the butcher's next door for $249 a kilo), while I was deciding between either a wagyu burger or smoked brisket sandwich. The Apprentice's steak sandwich is rumored to be the most expensive steak sandwich in Australia and is available from the Vic's Meats' Wagyu Bar at the Sydney Fish Market. He caressed it, he kissed it and with every loving bite of rare wagyu The Apprentice would smile and then grunt in a deep baritone that could rival Jim Morrison's voice. He had wanted to try the Emperor's Cut ever since he read about it in one of our daily newspapers and now he was at the cave and it was in front of him and it was becoming a part of him. I wasn't worthy of such a piece of beast and ordered from next door at Kong's Cave - which offers American-style smokehouse meats (think Carolina, Tennessee and Texan BBQ styles). Here you can get a smoked brisket sandwich; a wagyu cheeseburger or pulled pork sandwich (all for $10) or upsize to a double wagyu cheese burger ($15). The smoky goodness doesn't stop there - you can get chicken wings ($8), beef short ribs ($30), pork ribs ($40) and lamb riblets ($12). There's also some fine Young Henry's beer available as well as American Dr Pepper or Barqs root beer on the soda tap. If you order from the Wagyu Bar you can get a class of Penfold's Grange! Kong's Cave is named after a purposely built two-tonne smoker named Kong. Kong hails from Kansas City and apparently is the largest such smoker in Australia with the capacity to smoke 200kg of meat (Vic's Meats smokes with ironbark and applewood). Kong smokes everything from pork butt for the pulled pork, to the beef brisket, the chicken wings and the wagyu to feed the masses yearning for some smoky-flavored carnivore barbecue. Vic's Brisket Roll is full of slices of salty, peppery smoked tender beef in a soft roll topped with fresh slaw and a deep tomato sticky Texan-style sauce. It was good, very good. It took me back to the Lone Star State but I just needed it to be a bit bigger - as big as the heart of Texas bigger. And The Apprentice's steak sandwich? Well, unlike my roll which was wrapped in paper, his was served on fine china and included a couple of varieties of crisp lettuce. He reckons the Emperor's Cut was the chocolate of meat - it just melted - the best steak he has ever had and was worth every silver dollar. For his sake (and wallet's), I hope the experience was more Lindt than Cadbury. PS: Next door is Vic's walk-in cool room which is full of organic and prime meats for sale - including whole beasts. There's also a meat "candy bar" - where you can pick and mix set up where you can make your biltong and jerky varieties and pay by weight. Prices are reasonably good especially considering you are getting some of the best meat available in the country.

After reading the reviews for Vic's Meat Market, I was really looking forward to giving this place a try. Unfortunately, the experience didn't really live up to the hype. The BBQ and the beef ends were really good, but the cheeseburgers are bad enough to avoid like the plague. While the surf and turf burger is fairly good, it's nowhere near good enough to justify it's $30 price tag! There's wine by the glass available to enjoy with your meat, but at $11 a glass, it seems a bit overpriced given that you're eating on picnic tables next to a car park :-(

Awesome butcher, always has been. But during this COVID19 lockdown, they expanded their delivery and packaged options. Our absolute favourite is the Burger Kit. You get everything you need to make 6 perfect cheeseburgers. 6 Angus beef patties, 6 delectable potato buns (yes potato based, as are Krispy Kreme doughnuts). American cheese that melts without the oily grease, perfect streaky bacon and the special burger sauce (like BigMac sauce, but better). Hands down better than any burger in any Restaraunt in Australia we have had. We have ordered 3x and everyone agrees. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

I've had this on my list for weeks and finally got around to it. I'd only heard wonderful things about the mind-blowing brisket sandwich - but I've got to say, my world was not rocked. According to my friend, it was an off day so I'm keen to go and try it again (or maybe the pulled pork). The restaurant area was really cool though, and was pleasantly calm - I was expecting it to be mayhem. Parking's a little crazy, and is $3 for the first hour.

Our BBQ, Who art in BBQ Hallowed be Thy BBQ; Thy kingdom BBQ, Thy will be BBQ, on BBQ as it is in BBQ. I'm talkin' both types of BBQ here, the Australian 'chuck another X on it' patio kind, and the American slow-roast-in-a-smoker kind, because this joint caters to both. Vic's Meats have been around for ages and they're all kinds of great, but now they're even gooder great - they've taken up residency at the Sydney Fish Market, making it a one-stop shop for all your cookin' fixin's. There's the butcher part, which has prime cuts at really competitive supermarket-type prices, and also a serve-yourself biltong station. And then there's Kong's Cave on the other side. Kong is the gigantic Yoder SMoker they brought over from the States. It's the size of a diesel engine and pretty much the best thing you'll ever see when it's fired up, which it almost always is. The menu when I went was limited to two things for $10 a pop: 1. pulled pork burger 2. beef brisket burger I went pork, and it was like Meg Ryan from that movie scene was in my mouth doing her thing while the guy across from her I forget who it was looks on awkwardly. The burgers come wrapped up in nice paper with a Smokin' Hot sticker to hold it closed and the napkin holders say "Wipe The South Off Your Mouth" which tells you everything you need to know about my new home. Does it compare to American BBQ? Who the hell cares, it's ours, we own it, they can do what they want and I'll keep eating.

Holy sweet mother of brisket! It took me a while to finally try Vic's, going to fish market to have not-fish somehow just doesn't seem right to me. Sheesh have I been been missing out!! Their meat is smoked to perfection. We had the brisket sandwich and the cheeseburger and they were both crazy tender with just the right about of bite, sandwich that with soft, fluffy sugary buns and wash it down with young Henry on tap. Mate, high five. I'm going back next weekend, the fella next to me had this ridiculous looking beef short ribs that was giving me the come hither look (the ribs, not the fella). I'll keep you guys posted. UPDATE- 7 days later, I came back for the beef short ribs, smoked wings and another round of brisket sandwich (I tried to resist, I failed). They're all amazing, all of them. Even the sides are delicious. Dang.

Had this on my list of things to eat since it opened but I was either too full from eating the fresh seafood at the markets or too busy to drive there. I finally made it to Vic's Meat Market and with the DJ out front blazing my entrance theme, I was ready to satisfy my cravings for smokey BBQ meats. First up, I ordered a pulled pork and beef brisket sandwich to share. The pork was shredded, juicy, and slathered with sweet and tangy BBQ sauce. Finished off with creamy coleslaw to balance the sauce out and nestled between two soft burger buns. Damn the pork was good, but when I got my hands on the other half of the beef brisket sandwich...I just went to heaven. It was tender, juicy, and had the tasty Australian beef flavour that you just can't get anywhere else but what took it to another level was the burnt ends of the beef. After the first bite, all I wanted was to eat more beef brisket. Then something else caught my eye, written on the wall was a list of 9+ marble score Wagyu beef from NSW, VIC, and QLD. I overheard the teppanyaki chef explaining to the customers walking past that it was a Wagyu tasting bar. Hell yeah I'll have one steak please, I ordered the "Marble Score 11". I didn't even bother telling the chef how I wanted the steak cooked as I just relied on his skills to prepare the perfect steak for me. The steak came pre-sliced cubes, seasoned simply with salt and pepper and garnished with finely sliced carrot, cucumber, and radish. The steak was simply divine, it was amazingly tender and bursted with flavour when I bit into the meat. I didn't need the soy dipping sauce that accompanied the dish, but it actually did lift the flavours of the steak. To add to all this great food, was the beautiful Sydney spring weather, views of the wharf, ambience, and the chance to talk to the chef as he explained the different types of Wagyu sold by Vic's Meat Market. As I write this I am in a meat coma but it is well worth it, definitely having salad for dinner tonight.

This review is for their BBQ, not for their butcher Came here because friends raved about the burger and brisket... Came away with a pleasant experience, not mind blowing but pleasant. Have to say some friends set the expectations high for this place so my experience was going to be skewed no matter what. At $10 for a burger you really can't go wrong here, because the burgers are high quality and pretty tasty. My fatass ordered the beef brisket and cheeseburger to eat in one sitting. So just to note, if you're pretty hungry you can polish off two bad boys easily as the portions aren't too massive. The brisket was good, tender and juicy and tasted right with the burger. I prefer the brisket over at Jazz City BBQ but this brisket was delicious nonetheless. The cheeseburger was more of a miss for me. It's wagyu but the meat consistency was a little mushy, the best comparison I can give is if you've ever had a Jimmy Dean sausage patty, it's kind of like that except beef instead of pork. I'd be keen to try the pulled pork burger and come back to order the beef brisket burger again.

Never again! I went to the butcher on Saturday and purchased 2 lamb shoulders with the bone in. When I got home and opened them, I nearly threw up from the terrible smell. One of the shoulders was grey and clearly rotten. I rang the store straight away but they didn't return my call. I had to throw away one of the shoulders. Absolutely disgusting!

When Coz is missing his beloved Texas brisket and Carolina pulled pork, he goes to Vics for the next best thing. This is as close as it gets folks. Too easy to drop in, get some brisket, grab a newtowner tinnie and head out to the patio. Built in humour watching the cars trying to park the fish market parking lot.

We had Vics Meat Platter! $35 per person gets you 400g of meat per person, you get to choose what and how much, sample 2 items, sample 5, plus two sides!! It was a feast and all very tasty!! The guy that helped us was very patient with us as we picked out small portions of 5 different items. There were all good, tender and tasty!!!! I would definitely return!!

Omg this is meat heaven!! The meat looks so good we just wanted to buy it all. But instead we settled for some steaks, veal chops and lamb. Can not wait to throw it on the barbie. Some how we always go hungry when going groceries shopping so we had to stop and have a waygu beef burger and pulled pork sandwich. The pulled pork with slaw was scrumptious!! But the beef burger was a real let down. Shame.

they sell really nice meat here, including waygu beef....i manage to pick a nice 340g 6+ marble beef for 40aud dollar and had it cooked for 18aud....do talk to the butchers, they are friendly and explain clearly...the meat was perfectly cooked to medium rare...well done

A few months of quick lunches with mates might be over. Met today for lunch at 12:30 and had to line up, then sit outside...! Lucky the food is so satisfying. Their massive smoker makes some of the best slow cooked beef around. Yes they have wings and pulled pork but do yourself and your tastebuds a favor and go for the brisket or the short rib. Tender, juicy full of Flavours without being greasy. Also poo in next door to their butchery where you can get quality Wagyu, specialty cuts and home made sausages. So, next time you come to the fish markets, go for the red meat option.

Huge (cold) butcher at the fish markets with plenty of meats to choose from. I tend to go here for a wide range of produce such as flavoured sausages, goat, steak and even mince. It is the best quality meat you can buy and at times is reasonably priced (better than your local butcher or grocery store). They also provide good service.

Smoked Wagyu Cheese Burger was served at room temperature. Buns were not toasted (though can't fault them for that, different people do their burgers differently). Nothing to shout about. Maybe better at the meat market next door but I came in here hungry and with the name that the burger has, I guess I expected something a wee bit more wow than what I just had. Ah well, never try never know.

Great Pulled pork burger You can literally smell the smoker from the Anzac Bridge. The bun was super soft and fresh, the pulled pork was succulent and the slaw had a great flavour.

Stopped by for meat and later for a lunch bite. In terms of meat this is a heaven - they have a large variety of cuts and different source ranchers - various aged, grain-fed, pasture-fed, you name it... All at exceedingly reasonable prices for very high quality meat. The service is also stellar - super-friendly staff is very helpful offering insight into what each cut is, how to prepare, and the differences in the ranches they come from. They even explained a bit what they were doing as they were butchering I front of me. Attached adjacent to the market is a small eatery where you can get lunch items like sandwiches and such. I was undecided when I got in line but when they unveiled the brisket and cut into it unleashing a torrent of savory juices, my mind went blank and I said "give me that" - it lived up to appearances, The brisket sandwich is super soft and a lovely smoke flavor. 5 stars both meat market and eatery!!!