[Abbylovi]

“Is that a salami in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

The man who taught us to love really good cheese is now getting into the next best thing: salami! Next week, Murray's Cheese founder (and Slow Food advocate) Rob Kaufelt will open Murray’s Real Salami, a new shop at the Grand Central Market (separate from the existing Murray's Cheese store there) that’s all about the best-cooked and cured meats sourced from conscientious farmers and producers in America and Europe.




Murray's Real Salami will open the first week of November. 
 The store will stock everything from patés and rillettes to sausages and smoked meats all from the nation’s most respected artisans, including Columbus Salame, Creminelli, Fabrique Delices, Fra'Mani, La Quercia, Larchmont Charcuterie, Niman Ranch, Nueske's, Redondo, Salumeria Biellese, and S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, among others.


The shop's selection of goods will also include items previously unavailable in New York City, such as Creminelli's Salame Barolo and Salame Tartufo, Vermont Smoke & Cure's Hot Dogs, and Larchmont’s Spicy Beef Salami and Pork Saucisson.

In addition to offering cooked and cured meats, the store will stock complementary condiments from producers such as McClure's, Tracklements, and local ketchup maker, Katchkie. 


And if you need a little primer on the world of salami and its sausage brethren, check out Murray’s Salumi 101 and Season's Meatings as part of its Fall/Winter curriculum. 




Murray's Real Salami will be open Monday-Friday, 7 AM-9 PM; Saturday, 10 AM-7 PM; and Sunday 11 AM-6 PM.
 Murray's Real Salami
Grand Central Market is located in Grand Central Terminal, near Lexington Ave. & 43rd Street, 212-867-7202.

[Wilfrid1]

As if out of nowhere, American artisanal salume production seems to have leapfrogged domestic artisanal cheeses in quality. I am amazed at what I've been tasting recently.

[Suzanne F]

Wow. If they cut to order, they'll really give that German place some competition.

[Anthony Bonner]

Per Eater its open as of today. Probably walk down after work and check it out.

[Wilfrid1]

It's open indeed. Near the Lexington Avenue end of the market, where there used to be a stand selling French stuff. D'Artagnan products are still available under the Murray's banner, along with maybe a dozen or so salamis, two or three hams, and lots of whole, dry sausages.

Out of sheer perversity, I then went and bought some boudin noir from Koglin. Koglin certainly has salami, but their stock doesn't really overlap with Murray's much - Ceriello the butcher, on the other hand, currently stocks a lot of Italian sausages and is practically opposite the Murray's stand.

There are pre-cut mixed packs of meats which you can buy, but otherwise it looks like they slice the stuff to order.

[Ron Johnson]

Perhaps it fails to qualify as "artisanal" but some of the Volpi salume products are very good.

[Wilfrid1]

I'm enjoying the thuggishly shaped Crespone from Columbus salami - which I actually bought at Brix on Avenue C, but Murray's have it.

[Daisy]

Perhaps it fails to qualify as "artisanal" but some of the Volpi salume products are very good.

The Genoa salami is excellent.

[Ron Johnson]

Perhaps it fails to qualify as "artisanal" but some of the Volpi salume products are very good.

The Genoa salami is excellent.

yes it is, and the pepperoni is excellent for pizza.

[StephanieL]

The stock looks wonderful. There are so many dried salamis that I want to try. They're more than happy to give generous tastes of the sliced-to-order stuff--I really liked the rosemary ham. I ended up buying Niman Ranch corncob & maple ham--slightly sweet and with a much deeper flavor than the regular Applewood smoked ham--and a little snack-sized piece of Vermont Smoke & Cure's smoked pepperoni.