Tim Arden and Jason Halstead are the owners of Bare Bones Meat Market, located in Scott Depot.

Bare Bones Meat Market is giving the Scott Depot community a new option when it comes to purchasing meat for the dinner table. The butcher shop, which is located at 3999 Teays Valley Road, opened its doors to the public on the Fourth of July. The establishment features a wide variety of meats, including certified Angus beef, veal, pork, salmon, scallops, shrimp, crab cakes, duck, chicken, and lamb. There is also homemade hot Italian sausage and breakfast sausage, as well as beef tallow.

Bare Bones Meat aMarket is operated by Tim Arden of Charleston and Jason Halstead of Nitro. After having worked for a local wholesale meat distributor, Arden and Halstead decided to go in business for themselves. Halstead has been a butcher for thirty years, and Arden had a twenty-year career as a chef at Paterno’s at the Park, a restaurant which was located near the baseball stadium in Charleston.

Arden and Halstead say that their most popular beef offering is the ribeye steak, with crabcakes being the most popular seafood item. The shop also sells prepared foods such as pasta salad, potato salad, and cucumber salad, with more options being offered in the future. Arden’s wife, Kara, also sells brioche buns, dinner rolls, cookies, brownies, and other baked goods at the shop.

“Everyone seems happy that we’re here,” Arden says. “We are starting to get repeat customers, which is a plus.”

Right now the proprietors are finding out what is popular with their customer base. They hope to add bratwurst in the future, as well as offer whole turkeys and holiday roasts as pre-orders for the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Plans call for the opening of a drive through window for call-in orders at a future date.

The Bare Bones Meat Market Facebook page is updated regularly with specials and announcements of new products. For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576733379948