Hawthorn Est. 2003

The nuggets went viral. The butchery came first.

Josh Neilson has run the shop at 720 Glenferrie Road since 2003, back when it still traded as Rod Watson's. Primary cuts, gourmet sausages made on site, and a roasting service we've given away free for nearly twenty years. The half a million views were a surprise to everyone — we'd been frying those nuggets for two decades already.

  • 2003Trading since
  • 500k+Views on TikTok
  • 152Google reviews

Four things

What people actually
come in for

Twenty-three years on the same stretch of Glenferrie Road. Most of what we're known for was here long before anyone pointed a phone at it.

  1. 01

    The nuggets

    Seasoned chicken thigh, thick milk batter, fine white crumb, fried hard. We've made them the same way for over twenty years.

  2. 02

    The free roast

    Buy a roasting cut and we'll cook it for you. No charge. Add roast veg and gravy and the whole dinner is done.

  3. 03

    Primary cuts

    Eye fillet, rib eye, porterhouse. Sourced from leading producers and cut to order, the way Josh has always run the counter.

  4. 04

    The sausages

    Made on site. Pork belly, parmesan and truffle is the one that goes first — but the chilli cheese has its own following.

What's on today

The counter

Prices are per kilo unless marked. Everything is cut to order — if you can't see what you want, ask, because it's probably out the back.

· Anything marked free roasting we'll cook for you at no charge.

The sign out the front

Guess the price.
Get them free.

There's an A-frame on the footpath with the rules on it: guess the price of your nugget purchase and it's on us. People have been playing it for years. Here's a practice round — though the real one only counts at the counter.

Your bag

Cooked, still warm, straight off the tray.

A toy, obviously. No free nuggets are won on the internet — that happens on the footpath outside 720 Glenferrie Road.

Know your cut

Every cut is a different animal

Where a muscle sits decides how you cook it. The ones that worked hard need time and liquid. The ones that barely moved need heat and almost no time at all. Pick a cut and we'll tell you which.

Tap a section of the chart

Or let us do it

The roast calculator

Buy a roasting cut here and we'll cook it for you at no charge — we've done that for close to twenty years. If you'd rather do it yourself, these are the numbers.

How do you want it?

Total time in the oven

Oven
Pull it at
Rest for
On the table

Ovens lie. A $20 probe thermometer is the best thing you can buy for your kitchen — or hand the whole job to us and skip the argument.

What people say

152 reviews, 4.6 stars

4.6

from 152 Google reviews

Read them all on Google

Made up and ready

Packs, if you'd rather not think

Feeds 4–5

The Sunday

$95

  • 1.8kg leg of lamb — we'll roast it free
  • 1kg thick beef sausages
  • 800g chicken marylands
  • 500g premium mince
  • Roast veg and gravy on request
Order this pack
Most ordered

Feeds 6–8

The Nugget Run

$110

  • 2kg fried chicken nuggets, cooked
  • 1kg uncooked nuggets for the freezer
  • 1kg pork belly, parmesan & truffle sausages
  • 1kg honey & garlic chipolatas
  • Yes, you can still play the price game
Order this pack

Feeds 8–10

The Barbecue

$165

  • 4 rib eye steaks, cut thick
  • 1.2kg butterflied leg of lamb
  • 1kg marinated lamb skewers
  • 1kg chilli cheese sausages
  • 1kg peri peri chicken thigh
Order this pack

Packs change with what's good that week. Swap anything — just say so in your order.

Click and collect

Write it down, we'll have it ready

This is a request, not a checkout — nothing is charged here and no card details are taken. You pay at the counter when you pick it up, same as always. We read these through the day and will call back if anything needs sorting out.

  • Order before 3pm for same-day pickup
  • Roasting cuts cooked for free — tell us when you need it
  • Big nugget orders: give us a day, especially on weekends

In a hurry? Call (03) 9819 5100

Tell us what you're cooking and for how many, and whether you'd like us to roast it.

Ask the butcher

The questions we get every week

Come in

Visit the shop

Where

720 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122

Glenferrie station, a short walk Tram 16 runs down Glenferrie Road Metered parking along the strip

Open in Maps

When

Trading hours

Public holidays vary — we post them in the window and on the phone message.

Talk to us

The counter is the best place to work out what you actually need. If you can't get in, the phone is the next best thing.

(03) 9819 5100 Send an order instead