Dai Due

Butcher shop and supper club built entirely on regional ingredients, with a menu that changes with the seasons.

Dai Due is a butcher shop and supper club founded in 2006 to reconsider what 'our' food is and will be. We use only ingredients found in our region, so the bounties and scarcities of the seasons set the menu. We serve dinner Tuesday through Sunday and brunch Friday through Sunday. A deli counter offers same-day pickup orders. We also offer butchery classes for those who want to learn the craft. Because of our strict regional focus, preservation is central to how we work: we dry, can, pickle, ferment, smoke, candy, and freeze throughout the year. Our approach supports farmers and ranchers striving to improve food quality, and represents local culinary traditions.

We use only food sourced from our region and do not use vegetables or fruit grown far away, meats from factory farms, fish not from our waters, or foreign cheeses. Our potatoes are certified organic if not locally sourced. Almost all dry goods and vinegars are certified organic, and we buy mostly organic grains and corn grown and milled in Texas. Dai Due is seed oil-free: we cook predominantly with Texas olive oil, animal fats from hogs, beef, chicken, and duck, and butter. We deep-fry in beef tallow, and our mayonnaise is made with Zero Acres fermented sugarcane oil. Our wines and beers are from Texas, and the wines are never made from imported grapes. Non-alcoholic beverages are made in-house or sourced from local producers.