Iowa Meat Farms in Grantville has operated at 6041 Mission Gorge Rd, San Diego 92120 since 1968, when the Cohn family opened the butcher counter on this Mission Gorge Road corridor. The shop stocks more than 300 cuts spanning USDA Prime and Choice Midwestern beef, Berkshire pork, free-range Mary's Chickens poultry, veal, lamb, and a wild-game case that rotates through alligator, rabbit, pheasant, wild boar, antelope, ostrich, venison, elk, and American-Style Kobe. An on-premise dry-aging cooler holds whole primals at 36 degrees Fahrenheit, producing steaks with concentrated flavor that grocery-chain wet-aged programs cannot replicate. Mission Gorge Road's commercial corridor through Grantville funnels traffic between Mission Trails Regional Park and the I-8/I-15 interchange, and Iowa Meat Farms sits in that corridor alongside San Diego Brewing Company and other food businesses that benefit from the drive-by volume. The walk-in format means butchers break full carcasses in-house and will custom-cut crown roasts, frenched racks, or Turducken assemblies to order. A wine section organized around meat pairings — Highlands 41 Pinot Noir and a rotating Zinfandel shelf among them — adds a second revenue line that most San Diego butcher shops skip. The Cohn family also operates Siesel's Old Fashioned Meats & Deli off Morena Boulevard, giving the company two locations with shared sourcing from a certified Nebraska plant that tracks every cut back to the slaughter lot. Party trays, deli sandwiches, and pre-marinated Baja-style split chickens round out a prepared-food program that competes with the sit-down kitchens at A Brooklyn Pizzeria and other Grantville restaurants. The master meat cutters process custom requests against a certified branded-beef program that eliminates variance between batches — a sourcing discipline the Cohn family has maintained across five decades of continuous operation.