Kevin WattButchers

Kevin Watt Butchers occupies a shopfront on Haddington's High Street and is, by local account, the town's only independent butcher. Kevin Watt trained in the trade for more than fifteen years before opening under his own name, building a counter around locally sourced beef, lamb and pork alongside a changing range of homemade sausages. The shop also deals in game in season, a detail that separates it from the supermarket meat aisles nearby. Staff cut to order rather than working from pre-packed trays, and regulars tend to ask for cuts by name rather than by weight. There is no online ordering system; custom is built on the daily rhythm of a small High Street shop rather than delivery. It sits a short walk from the Nungate footbridge over the River Tyne.