Beef Fillet

About Our Beef Fillet

Beef fillet, or tenderloin, is the single most tender cut we sell. It sits along the inside of the loin, does almost no work while the animal is alive, and so it carries very little connective tissue. What you get is a lean, fine-grained cut with a soft, almost buttery bite - the cut you reach for when you want restaurant-quality steak at your own table.

We trim our fillet by hand from carcasses hung in our own cold room at City Market, so the silverskin and surface fat come off cleanly and you are paying for meat rather than trim. Tell us how you plan to cook it and we will portion accordingly: thick medallions of about 200g for pan-searing, a whole centre-cut piece for roasting as chateaubriand, or thin escalopes if you are cooking a stir-fry or stroganoff.

Because fillet is lean, it is also the cut that punishes overcooking hardest. Cook it hot and fast, rest it properly, and slice against the grain. If you prefer a beefier, more marbled steak, our rib eye or sirloin will suit you better, and our T-bone gives you fillet and sirloin on the same bone.

How to Cook Beef Fillet

• Bring to room temperature for 20-30 minutes before cooking - cold meat cooks unevenly.
• Pat dry, oil the meat rather than the pan, and season with salt just before it hits the heat.
• Sear 2-3 minutes per side in a very hot pan for medium-rare on a 3cm medallion.
• Rest for at least 5 minutes under foil so the juices settle back through the meat.
• Fillet has little fat of its own, so finish with butter, or wrap in bacon for a roast.

Buying beef fillet in Nairobi

We cut beef fillet at Stall 55, ground floor, City Market, Muindi Mbingu Street, in the Nairobi CBD - the same stall Kamundia Butchery has traded from since 1959. Walk in any day - Monday to Saturday 6:30am - 7:00pm, Sunday 9:00am - 5:00pm - and buy it over the counter, or order here and we will deliver it chilled. Orders placed before 4:00pm go out the same day across the CBD, Westlands, Kilimani, Karen and everywhere else we serve.

Buying in quantity? We supply restaurants, hotels, schools and canteens across Nairobi with standing orders and whole-carcass pricing - see wholesale and bulk supply, or call 0707 700511 to talk it through.