Irish Hill Foods was founded in 1983 by Louisville natives Tom Dawson and John Baker to provide Kentucky’s restaurants with the freshest and highest quality beef, veal, pork, poultry and lamb products.

Tom and John’s expertise reflects a combined 60 years experience with Louisville’s Dawson-Baker Packing Company, a company with a worldwide reputation for producing high quality meats.

Working with Dawson-Baker’s worldwide customer base provided them with a solid foundation in customer support and taught them that the descriptive phrase “world recognized high quality” applies to both products and service.

From that experience with Dawson-Baker and thanks to its dedicated, veteran staff and high standards of quality, service and value, Irish Hill Foods has grown into the region’s premier distributor of quality meat products.

A Tradition of Quality

Your customers know how to define quality. It becomes evident when they first slice into a juicy ribeye, rack of lamb or veal chop.

When the meat slices like butter and fills the air with its rich mouthwatering aroma, you’ve served them well.

When pasta lovers stare longingly at the marvelous cuts of beef, pork, veal, lamb and poultry that surround them at the dinner table, you’ve served your customers well.

The quality of meat that you serve is unmistakable when tips are good and smiles are in abundance.
As a restaurateur, you expect great meat products, but you also expect that quality to be to be consistent and that’s why so many restaurants serve meats from Irish Hill Foods.

We’ve grown a lot since 1983, but we’re not to big keep our focus on the individual needs of our customers.

A Tradition of Safety

Even though taste is a critical element, it’s even more critical that your processor protects your reputation by adhering to strict standards for wholesomeness.

Your protection is another of our specialties.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has controlled meat inspection for more than 80 years. Most people know that the USDA rates the physical characteristics of the meat, but they also monitor product safety.

The USDA has set the highest standards in the world and Irish Hill Foods has been part of the program from our beginning. There are federal meet inspectors in our plant every day. If we don’t meet the standards they set forth, they would close our doors.

At Irish Hill Foods, food safety is our highest priority. Our HACCP plan, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, is more stringent than USDA requirements. Our HACCP establishes controls to ensure that our products will be shipped to our customers in the highest quality condition.

Our commitment is that every customer gets the highest quality, cleanest and most sanitary products delivered on time, every time.

Please review our Safe Handling guide.

A Tradition of Value

Quality service is an integral part of value.

Every Irish Hill employee knows the importance of customer satisfaction to our future and we recommit ourselves to the customer every single day. We don’t make promises we can’t keep. We deliver the right product to your door at the time promised.

Every employee is a key member of the Irish Hill team and we take great pride in the quality of service they provide to our customers.

We’re proud of our staff. Meet them here.

Going that extra mile...

At Irish Hill Foods, we give our customers the very best at a fair price.

And we aren’t afraid to work a little harder to build even greater value into every product we sell. We’re local. That means we’re just minutes away from most of our customers.

Got a last-minute emergency need? No problem.

Need a custom order? No problem.

No matter how well you plan, we know that unexpected things can happen. We’re ready to help you handle them.