The Butcher Counter
Beef, pork, and poultry, cut fresh to your order, custom thickness, special requests, and honest advice on what to cook and how to cook it.
Our Story
Three generations behind the counter
Jeremy Scavazzo learned this trade the old way, as a kid in his grandfather's award-winning shop, Dotti-Lou Meats & Catering in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. His grandfather taught him everything himself: the recipes and seasoning blends, the way you break down a side of beef, the way you sharpen a knife, the way you treat the person across the counter. It was handed straight from grandfather to grandson, and it made Jeremy the third generation of Scavazzo butchers.
That craft never left him, and now we're bringing it home to the Lehigh Valley. The name says what we believe: the cleaver is the trade, honest work done by hand, and gilded is the standard we hold it to. Nothing leaves our counter that we wouldn't put on our own table.
Scavazzo's Gilded Cleaver is a modern take on the shop Jeremy grew up in. Everything the supermarket meat case left behind, a butcher who knows your name, cuts to order, and can tell you exactly how to cook what you're taking home, rebuilt for the way we shop and eat today. Sliced lunch meats for the week, kielbasa and jerky from our own smokehouse, and fresh sausage made from his grandfather's recipes, with a full deli and take-home prepared meals joining the lineup as we grow.
We're a husband-and-wife team, raising our family right here in the valley, and if our little guy has his way, a fourth generation is already in training. We've been fortunate enough to get guidance along the way from Jeremy's grandmother Catherine, who helped run Dotti-Lou for decades. Right now we're swinging hammers, not cleavers, so follow along as the shop takes shape. Then come in for Tuesday's dinner, come back for Sunday's roast. Either way, you'll leave with something good.
Cut to orderHouse-madeSmoked in-houseHouse spice blendsFamily-owned
