Poppleton Village Butchers nominated in Press Awards

Poppleton Village Butchers is the 10th and last of our 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.

Poppleton Village Butchers in Allerton Drive, Nether Poppleton, has been owned by Danny Hopcutt since 2023, after he took over the shop from Viking Butchers.

As the owner of York Wholesale Meats, Danny has been connected to the meat trade for his whole life – with his grandfather managing a number of butcher shops, before opening his own in Burton Stone Lane, and his father owning a national wholesale meat company.

Dry aged meat, boned out in store for steaks (Image: Provided) Whilst attending university and obtaining a business degree, Danny found a niche in the market and opened his own business in York supplying locally sourced and prepared meats to restaurants and customers around the region.

After having to shut his wholesale shop during Covid, Danny missed the retail side of the business and ended up taking on the shop – opening Poppleton Village Butchers with a focus on local meat products.

He said: “I’m pretty hands on with things and I go where I’m needed. It’s hard work juggling two businesses, but you put out what you put in.

The shop makes its own sausages in store (Image: Provided) “Since opening the doors, I definitely have a few more grey hairs.”

All meat at Poppleton Village Butchers is bought locally – with Danny frequenting local markets – and is boned out in shop, with sausages and burgers prepared by the butchers on site.

The shop also stocks award winning pies, which are bought in Voakes in Green Hammerton and include gluten free options – giving more people the chance to enjoy them.

Some of the joints on offer in store (Image: Provided) Danny added: “I just apply modern thinking and what I’ve learnt to an old trade.

“We also have fantastic staff in the butchers. I want to thank Harrison Hirst – he does a fantastic job at running our front of house.”

Poppleton Village Butchers is open from 8am to 4.30pm from Tuesday to Friday and 8am to 2pm on a Saturday.