Harry Bromwich’s Bromwich Family Butchers in Press Awards

Bromwich Family Butchers is the eighth of 10 finalists in The Press Best Farm Shop, Deli or Butchers Shop 2025 competition.

After readers have nominated hundreds of favourites using an online voting platform, they will now be able to vote for their winner by picking up copies of The Press newspaper until May 17.

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The winner is set to be announced during the week of May 27 and each copy of The Press in the coming days will feature a short profile on each business and why it thinks it deserves to be voted number one in York and the surrounding area.

Bromwich Family Butchers opened its doors in The Village, Haxby, on April 1, 2022 – taking over from the former Haxby Butchers after its owner decided that it was time for a change – and has gone from strength to strength since then.

Owned by Harry Bromwich, who was 26 at the time of opening and is now 29, the shop started trading just two weeks after the birth of Harry’s first child.

Harry said: “I always wanted to open my own shop, but it all came very quickly. Before, on a Saturday, I’d be on the rugby pitch then out in town with my mates and I was having my daughter.

Harry shows off some of the products on sale (Image: Provided) “To open my own business too, I had to think, do I want a total lifestyle change?”

Prior to opening his own shop, Harry worked at Knavesmire Butchers – close to his home in Acomb – and came to Haxby as a ‘complete outsider’, coming across the closure of the previous shop through a Facebook post and contacting previous owner Jon Wreglesworth the next day.

He added: “I just couldn’t be anywhere better – I didn’t really know Haxby before I opened the shop, but the people are so supportive.”

Since opening its doors, Bromwich has sourced all of its meat locally through the wholesale market – butchering it in house and making most of its stock, including sausages, butchers, and BBQ meat.

Harry with Nathan Potter: a member of staff who has been a key part of the business from day one. (Image: Provided) The shop also supplies the second business – Bromwich Butties – that Harry runs with his brother James from a nearby building, with meats being prepared in house.

Harry said: “I’m really massive on supporting local farming. Even if I could make more money buying in meat from far away, I wouldn’t do it.”

Since developing an interest in local farming, Harry has made it a habit to attend meat markets and even become involved in judging at shows.

Some of the preprepared options (Image: Provided) In addition to sourcing stock locally, Bromwich also supplies several York restaurants, including the Rose and Crown in Sutton on the Forest and the Delamore Arms in Heslington, and delivers locally to customers.

Harry added: “Obviously, I’ve only been open for three years so to be in the top ten in such good company is amazing.

“I’d also like to thank everyone who supported us – my family, who help out in the shop, and my wife, who is 30 weeks pregnant with our second child.”