Hawthorn Est. 2003
The nuggets went viral. The butchery came first.
We've been Hawthorn's best kept secret since 2003, back when we still traded as Rod Watson's. We cut primary cuts to order, we make our gourmet sausages on site, and we've given our roasting service away free for close to twenty years. The half a million views came as a surprise to us — we'd been frying those nuggets for two decades already.
- 2003Trading since
- 500k+Views on TikTok
- 152Google reviews
The shop
Twenty-three years on
the same stretch of road
Josh took the shop on in 2003. Most of what we're known for was here long before anyone pointed a phone at it.
The nuggets are the obvious one now. Seasoned chicken thigh, a thick milk batter, fine white crumb, fried hard — made the same way for over twenty years. There's a sign on the footpath inviting you to guess what your bag comes to. Guess right and it's free, and people have been having a go at it for as long as we've had the sign out.
The rest is the ordinary work of a butcher's shop. We cut primary cuts to order — eye fillet, rib eye, porterhouse — and we make the sausages ourselves, the pork belly, parmesan and truffle being the one that tends to go first. Buy something to roast and we'll roast it for you at no charge, with veg and gravy if you'd rather the whole dinner was handled. We've done that for close to twenty years too.
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.
Nothing matches that. Try a different word, or just ask us at the counter.
· 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
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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.
Total time in the oven
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- Pull it at
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- On the table
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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
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
Ask the butcher
The questions we get every week
Come and look
The shop, the counter,
and the people behind it
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 MapsWhen
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