Avoid Cliff's. Of my three experiences ordering meat from Cliff, only one was correct. The first time was a rack of lamb for Easter that had a huge diagonal ""mistake"" cut in the middle of the rack that almost severed it in two, and ruined two chops. The second was a rib roast that was okay. The last order was for a chateaubriand (center cut of the tenderloin). At $22.50/lb, what I got was a tenderloin netted and wrapped in fat. When I removed the netting to take away the fat, what I had were two tenderloin tips laid side-by-side to give the illusion of one contiguous piece of meat. This is discovered at 7:30 pm on Christmas Eve, too late to do anything about. I phoned after Christmas to find out what happened and Cliff himself told me that he ""didn't know what a chateaubriand is"". He was rude and dismissive, and said that a chateaubriand is whatever you want to define it as, it's all just beef and apparently doesn't give a crap about what he sells to his customers. He just overcharges for it. I could have bought an entire tenderloin at S&S or Adams for less than the $60 I paid and cut and trimmed it myself, with meat leftover, for less money and A LOT LESS AGGRAVATION.
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