About Strip District Meats

Strip District Meats, formally known as Farmers Choice Poultry and Meats, was started over 50 years ago. Raymond N. Turkas Sr. and his wife Gloria Turkas started the business in the Bottoms section of McKees Rocks. Several years later they moved the growing retail business to its present location at 2123 Penn Avenue in the Strip District. His son, Raymond N. Turkas Jr., and his wife Roberta Turkas now run the business along with their children, Raymond N.Turkas III and Christie Turkas. Because of their location, they decided to change their name in May of 2007 to Strip District Meats.

Strip District Meats is a nostalgic treat, reminding you of the butcher shops of a bygone era. Its a visual delight thanks to owner and head butcher Raymond Turkas' artistic inclinations who studied art and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon for a year and arranges rows of pork chops, chicken, yards of homemade sausage, steaks and ribs into visions of wonderful meals.

We carry a full line of beef, pork and chicken. The shop offers rabbit, quail, pheasant, duck and goose, which are available frozen. We also offer the popular flank steaks, hanger steaks, flat iron steaks and skirt steaks for the grill. Strip District Meats offers tongue, sweetbreads, and brains for the adventurous pallets. And for the gastronomic risk takers, mountain oysters, the euphemism for bull testicles.