“The perfect beef” Germany’s top restaurants trust the superior quality of Irish Hereford Prime beef.
Otto Gourmet, Germany’s top beef wholesaler, has been supplying Irish Hereford Prime beef to Michelin star restaurants and leading steakhouses across the country for over twenty years. The company’s aim is to source the best beef from across the globe and bring it back to Germany to supply customers who value best-in-class, quality products.
Stephan Otto, Founder and Managing Director of Otto Gourmet, is delighted to say that Irish Hereford Prime fits perfectly with their discerning customer base, describing it as ‘the best grass-fed beef’ that they sell. He points to the Irish way of farming, with animal care and regenerative practices at its core, as the vital ingredient for Irish Hereford Prime’s superior quality.
“Often Irish Hereford Prime is the only Grass-fed beef that our restaurants will put on their menu.” Henry Van Dyck, Otto Gourmet
With German chefs requesting Irish Hereford Prime time and time again, Henry van Dyck, Otto Gourmet’s sales manager, is happy to report that his customers are now branching out and choosing, less well known, secondary cuts of beef to include on their menus, alongside the more traditional fillets and rib eye. He believes that this is because they can trust that the flavour, texture and consistency of the beef will always be good.
“Our customers are mainly looking for the perfect trim, but the taste is superb, we have a flavourful pure grass-fed taste, even the consistency (is good), we have so many secondary cuts which are currently the top-notch choice in Germany, our customers are going for these cuts due to consistency.” Henry Van Dyck, Otto Gourmet
Chef Benedikt from Manner Metzger agrees with this and gives an example from his restaurant’s steak tastings; he explains that his guests are always surprised to find that the Terrace Major cut that they try is from the shoulder, they assume it is a fillet due to its incredible tenderness.
Many of Otto Gourmet’s chefs point to their returning customers as proof of the consistency of quality that Irish Hereford Prime brings. Eric Menchan head chef and owner of Le Moissonnier explains that his regular customers order Irish Hereford Prime because they know that they are going to get a great piece of beef time and time again.
Stephan Otto sees a bright future for Irish Hereford Prime in Germany, with more and more of his restaurants requesting it. He believes that it is “The product you need today in order to say, ‘this is really good beef.”
Chef Marcus Sprenger, from the restaurant Der Hof sums up the German chefs’ attitude to Irish Hereford Prime when he says
“From the beginning I was a big fan and to this day our customers are always happy with Irish Hereford Prime beef”.
