Search out Wild meat and Game companies. We love The Wild Meat Company based in Suffolk. You can also express to your butchers that you want squirrel - we can show demand.

Nina Matsunaga built a relationship with a local estate groundsman.

Available all year.

The Wild Meat Company describes it as “a subtler version of rabbit, with some saying the flavour resembles a cross between rabbit and chicken – with a hint of nuts.”

Restaurant Silo have said that you only get a starter portion from the meat and that it is time consuming to prepare. Their team believe it’s best salted and then confited or braised.

Restaurant Silo served up squirrel koftas with their in house yoghurt and preserved citrus. Nina Matsunaga loves to braise, roll and press hers. Take inspiration from Paul Wedgwood’s rack of squirrel here.

Once you have caught a grey squirrel, by law you cannot release it.