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Meridian Meats & Seafood
About Meridian Meats & Seafood
Independent meat and seafood shop in Lincoln, Port Coquitlam, with the case stocked with fresh cuts and staff who can say where the fish came from.
Meat counters live or die by the person standing behind them. Meridian Meats & Seafood is an independent food shop in Port Coquitlam, the kind of store where the case is stocked with fresh cuts and someone can tell you where the fish came from and what to do with it. That human layer is what separates a counter shop from a supermarket aisle. Questions get answered on the spot, special orders get taken, and a customer can ask for a roast to be tied or a fillet to be cut a certain way. The shop stands outside the big banner grocery chains, which is exactly the kind of business this directory exists to list.
Buying protein from a dedicated counter changes how a week of meals goes. A butcher case rewards planning: the Sunday roast, the stew meat for a cold stretch, the salmon when it is in season on this coast. Port Coquitlam itself sits between the Coquitlam River and the Pitt River, with the Fraser running along its south side, and the city has always had room for small food shops alongside the larger boxes. Independent grocers like this one tend to anchor their blocks. The counter learns which cuts the regulars buy, and the order book reflects what the neighborhood actually cooks through the wet Pacific Northwest winters.
No street address, phone number or website is available, so a first visit takes a little legwork: confirm the location through local signage or the postal code V3C 0A4, and plan to pay at the counter. Worth asking once there: what is fresh this week, whether the shop will set cuts aside for pickup, and how orders are handled for holidays and busy weekends. Shoppers who keep a freezer appreciate a counter they can talk to, and a short conversation at the case usually saves money at supper.
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In the Lincoln neighbourhood of Port Coquitlam.
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