Aldi Irish Angus Fillet steak

baldbear

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/product_range/product_range_14797.htm

Hi guys,

I was wondering does anyone buy these steaks? I used too. Top notch steaks and very cheap but for the last few months i can't get them. They have the striploin and sirloin but the fillet has gone. Can anyone find them?

I'm wondering are restaurants buying them up and selling them to their customers or have Aldi stopped buying them in???

Lapin

baldbear wrote: »

I'm wondering are restaurants buying them up and selling them to their customers or have Aldi stopped buying them in???

I sincerely hope the answer is no in both cases.

Those steaks are absolutely gorgeous so I doubt a lack of demand would be a reason Aldi no longer stock them if this is the case.

If anything, a high demand could be the reason they are hard to get. Maybe they sell out quickly ?

I wouldn't blame restaurants for buying them up if it saves them money but its something I would frown upon. It could be seen as a cynical practice especially if their own customers are being misled in regard to the origin of the dish they serve.

I wonder do Aldi apply a quota an the number of fillets each customer can buy. Or do they care how many anyone buys as long as they sell.

TeletextPear

They have these steaks in the Aldi in Grange in Cork this week, I look for them there every week and this is the first time in about six months I've seen them in stock. And stupidly I didn't buy any?!

Little Alex

Lapin wrote: »

I wonder do Aldi apply a quota an the number of fillets each customer can buy. Or do they care how many anyone buys as long as they sell.

They do. At the tills there are signs up saying that they may limit the quantities (of anything, not just these steaks) that one customer can buy.

chalkitdown

baldbear wrote: »

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/product_range/product_range_14797.htm

Hi guys,

I was wondering does anyone buy these steaks? I used too. Top notch steaks and very cheap but for the last few months i can't get them. They have the striploin and sirloin but the fillet has gone. Can anyone find them?

I'm wondering are restaurants buying them up and selling them to their customers or have Aldi stopped buying them in???

I would urge you the try the rib steak in the same range, much more flavour than the fillet imo.

gman2k

chalkitdown wrote: »

I would urge you the try the rib steak in the same range, much more flavour than the fillet imo.

+1 the Ribeye steak is fantastic.

Mike Litoris

I haven't bothered with fillet for years after discovering Ribeye.

Up until a couple of eyars ago, Tesco used to sell off big unsold joints after the weekend. A few times I got a full cavery style rib on the bone joint for a little over a tenner. Could get 4-5 thick ribeyes from it. That seems to have stopped with the rest of the good times!:D

Stroke Politics

It's a decent steak, Irish meat packed by AIBP, but at c.€32 per kilo, it's overpriced. Go to Supervalu or your independent butcher for a striploin @ €22/€26 per kilo, or a rib eye @ €18 per kilo....

jdivision

Restaurants would be able to buy them far cheaper from suppliers

vibe666

great steaks in aldi, but never gone for the fillets.

we used to get striploin, but gone off it recently and moved on to ribeye, much tastier imho.

we've been marinating them in teriyaki marinade for 24 hours and then doing them on the griddle pan or the bbq and they're simply awesome.

JONJO THE MISER

These are unreal steaks but they have put up the price by 1 Eur:(