Dry-aged beef, hung up to six weeks in our Knysna butchery. By our butchers.
We raise the animals on our own farms and cut the meat ourselves. Ask us anything, it's how we've always sold.
Best Business Titan 2024, voted by our customers. Sixty years in, still going above and beyond.
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We farm it and we cut it
The animals are ours, raised on our own farms in Knysna, George, Uplands and the Karoo. Our butchers cut them in Knysna. Nobody stands between the field and your door, and nobody else in the country can say that.
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Bert Greeff (Snr) comes to Knysna
Bert Greeff was already a butcher when he came south. He had a successful shop in Magaliesburg, and he left it.
He packed up his family and drove down to a small town on the southern Cape. His wife came with him, and so did their one-year-old son, Bertie. In Knysna, Bert opened a butchery on Main Street and cut meat the way he knew how: by hand, to order, across one counter.
The baby in the car would one day buy the business from him.
Bertie buys Greeff's Butchery
In 1988, Bertie Greeff came home to Knysna.
He had grown up in the shop, but he didn't step straight into it. First came his army service, then a BCom at UPE, then a spell in accounting at Thesen's. Those years gave him something his father's trade alone couldn't: a head for business to go with the family's feel for good meat.
At twenty-four, Bertie bought the shop from his father. It was a big step for a young man, but it was also a homecoming. The butchery Bert Snr. had built after leaving Magaliesburg was now in the next generation's hands.
Ursula joined him behind the counter, and she never left. Together they carried Greeff's forward, one customer and one cut at a time.
From Main Street to Waterfront Drive
After forty-five years, the shop outgrew Main Street.
Bertie and Ursula moved it to 45 Waterfront Drive. It wasn't a job for contractors. The whole family pitched in, and so did friends, the way things get done in a small town: carrying, cleaning, fitting the new shop out by hand until the counter was ready.
It's the counter Knysna knows today, and most of the people who helped still buy their meat across it.
A second shop in Sedgefield
For years, Sedgefield people drove to Knysna for their meat, and for years they asked the same question across the counter: when are you coming to us?
In 2018, Greeff's finally did. A second shop opened in Sedgefield, twenty minutes down the road.
Pieter is on the block, cutting by hand and to order. Jackie is at the till and on the shop floor, and knows most customers by name. Different town, same way of doing things, and a lot fewer people making the drive.
And now, to your door
For sixty years you had to come to Knysna.
Now we deliver across the Western Cape, cut to order and packed cold, so what arrives at your door is what you would have carried out of the shop.
The chain is short on purpose. Our farm, our butchers, your kitchen.
Come and see us in Knysna if you are ever passing. There is coffee, and someone who knows exactly what you should do with a shoulder of Karoo lamb.
Have a question ? We are here to help.
Check out the most common questions our customers asked. Still have questions ? Contact our customer support.
Where do we ship ?
We currently deliver across the Western Cape.
Everything is cut to order in Knysna, so we would rather deliver well to one province than badly to the whole country. We will open other provinces when we can do it properly.
If you are outside the Western Cape, email onlineordersgreeffs@gmail.com and we will let you know when we reach you.
Do I need to setup an account to place an order?
You do not need to set up an account to place an order. However creating an account allows you to store your shipping information, see order history, and view your product’s warranty information. Additional features will be added to the account page in the near future.
Do you offer gift wrapping
Not wrapping, no. Meat travels cold and gets unpacked fast, so paper and ribbon would not survive the trip.
What we do instead is send it as a proper gift. Your order arrives in our branded insulated packaging with a handwritten card, in your words, kept dry in a sleeve on top of the meat. No prices, no invoice in the box. Just add your message at checkout.
How long will it take to get my orders?
It depends where you are.
Knysna, Sedgefield, Plettenberg Bay and George. Your order never goes through a depot. It comes straight from our cold room to you, same day or the next working day. The Wednesday cut-off below doesn't apply to you.
The rest of the Western Cape. Order before 5pm on Wednesday and your meat is cut, packed and dispatched that week, reaching you 1/2 days after order. Order after 5pm on Wednesday and it goes out the following Monday, arriving Tuesday/Wednesday.
We hold late orders on purpose. Sending meat out at the end of the week means it sits in a depot over the weekend, and you'd get meat that has spent longer in transit than on the block. Monday dispatch means it reaches you at its best.
You'll get a tracking notification when your order leaves us. Whole and half animals are cut to your specification and take longer — we agree a date with you directly.
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A must stop! Their biltong, customer service and the overall quality of the meat is worth the 5 star rating! You'll definitely see more of us.
Honestly the best quality meat in South Africa with friendlly helpful staff. The place smelled clean and looked awesomwe. Lots of extras there too. You can walk there with and idea and leave with a whole braai or other feast!