Sebastian and Co Fine Organic Meats is proud to bring you beautiful quality naturally raised and certified organic meat direct from farmers in BC and Alberta. Our approach is very much old-fashioned...we work from whole sides of beef, pork, and lamb so that we can prepare steaks, roasts and racks just as you like. Custom cuts and special orders are always welcome. We take great pains to ensure our meat is tender and flavourful by dry aging our beef from 21 to over 40 days. In fact you can select specific cuts from hanging ribs which are dry aging in the window of our shop's walk-ibn cooler. - - At Sebastian and Co we make all our artisanal sausage from scratch, with freshly chopped herbs and no nitrates, preservatives or meat binders added. We smoke our own bacon, hams and other deli items.more...See more text
Shortly after immigrating to Canada from Chile in 1999, Sebastian Cortez, owner of Sebastian & Co. Fine Meats, began his career as a chef. However he soon realized that, while he had a huge passion for cooking and food, the restaurant lifestyle wasn’t for him.
“I wasn’t sure what to do when I left restaurants,” says Sebastian. “Then a friend of mine invited me to join him butchering meat on an organic farm, and it just took off from there.” Sebastian went on to study and practice the art of nose-to-tail butchery, a process which included a stint as head butcher at Toronto’s renowned Healthy Butcher.
While visiting his wife’s family in Vancouver one Christmas, he fell in love with the city’s landscape, and soon after spotted his chance to call Vancouver home. “No one here was doing what we were doing in Toronto, so I saw a good opportunity,” he says. And so in 2007, he opened the doors of Sebastian & Co. Fine Meats, Vancouver’s first artisan butcher shop.
