Red meat is easy to come by, whether via restaurants, your local grocery store or an increasing number of online retailers.

But not all meat is the same.

Anyone who's had a tough, thin diner steak and a thick, dry-aged ribeye knows this.

So, if you're going to eat meat, let it be good meat.

Pursuit Farms is an operation that's sourcing and selling some of the best wagyu beef in the world. Founded in 2020, the company started out by supplying meat to top restaurants, and now it's bringing that same premium-quality meat directly to your doorstep. That bodes well for your next dinner.

Pursuit Farms was started by Erik Sun, a chef and restaurateur who grew to appreciate our relationship with natural foods through hunting and spearfishing. Harvesting your own meat or catching your own fish is often the best representation of that animal, both from an eco-conscious standpoint and also in terms of flavor. Sun wanted to share that ethos with more people and highlight farmers and ranchers who are dedicated to the best products.

Lots of companies are peddling wagyu these days, so the average cut is mass-produced and lacks some of the flavor and character the meat is prized for. Pursuit Farms is one of the few that selects its meat at auction — think a Tokyo tuna auction, but for cows — buying ultra-premium options like Hokkaido snow beef, Ohmi beef, certified Kobe and olive-fed wagyu and then sharing that bounty with its customers.

They also have some of the more interesting options on the market, including meats that are difficult to find elsewhere. The melt-on-your-tongue Mangalitsa pork, for example, has original bloodlines hailing from Hungary. And fat-tail lamb, a species native to Uzbekistan and the Middle East, is raised on Pursuit's very own farm. 

Scroll through the site, and you'll see a variety of wagyu cuts from Japan and Australia. There are also 55-day dry-aged prime porterhouses and ribeyes, American skirt steaks, suckling pigs, lamb ribs and other things you'll want to eat. If you can't make a decision, choose from one of the sampler packages, or select the omakase option, which features the best cuts of the week.

The company avoids the common industry practice of buying frozen meat only to later defrost it, cut it and refreeze it, which can change the meat's moisture content, texture and flavor. Everything ordered through Pursuit Farms shows up at your door fresh and sealed in cryovac packaging. Steaks are gorgeously marbled and require nothing more than some salt and heat. 

And maybe a side dish. And a good bottle of red wine. But come on, these guys can't do everything.