List your favorite small town meat markets here

[highlife4me]

Schmidt's in Nicollet German Beer Sausage is the best hands down

[chaffmj]

Osseo meats is excellent and I work only half a block away. We do their beef tenderloin, prime rib and others thing all the time at work. Send their jerky to my daughter in Chicago and she loves it and she doesn't eat meat but can't pass that up.

If you are in St. Paul and are near downtown buy a porketta from Cossetta's.

[muskyhunter57]

R.J.s in Hudson Jalapeno/Cheese Summer sausage. Just had a sandwich.

[Rooster Chaser]

I will second the place in Holstein, Ia for brats, especially the pineapple jalapeno!

[MN Mike]

A couple people already mentioned the ones I like.

Neils Meats in McIntosh is a good hometown shop.

Lakes Processing in Detroit Lakes is very creative, hawaian and garden brats are great! Good snacksticks too.

Mike

[sparkyaber]

Isanti coustom meats and Isanti retail meats kinda biased my buddy owns it.

They run a great shop up there! My family has our pork and beef processed there. Is is great to have the Reichel's boys back making sausage in Isanti.

[Leaky]

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Zup's in Ely. The sausages are excellent, and they even went online for ordering several years back.

Their polish are a staple for ice-fishing!

Couldn't agree more Jackpine. Whenever I go in there I reserve an extra 1/2 hour cause I know I will always run into someone to shoot the bull with. Was up for Thanksgiving and ended up coming home with a chest cooler full of:

15 Lb Prime Rib cut into 3 roasts (On Sale)

Wild Rice Stuffed 6 lb chicken

Mock Chicken Legs - (great slow grilled on tin foil)

Potato & Blood Sausage

4 lb Porketta Roast

Wild Rice Brats

Porketta Brats

Pollakers.

This should hold me over till the next trip up.

[buddha]

Schmidts, and Georges in Nicollet.

[stick]

I have never been there, but can anyone say anything about 4 seasons in Coleraine/Bovey??

[pascooter94]

schmidts meat market it rocks!!!!!!!!

[dewey1]

what cut of meat do you use for that? loin? thanks, looks great will have to try the recipe out

pork butt is a good cut. loin is a little to lean. try the jelly-roll method and spread seasoning inside and re-roll. season outside as well.

[tracker x-2]

shamps meat market in PineRiver Nothing better than their jerky.

[paceman]

Lakes Processing in Detroit Lakes is awesome. They even have a drive-up window. Hoffman's also in D.L. is pretty good as well. In fact they were just bought out by the former Lakes Processing family.

[Redlantern]

Nothing really fancy here but Fedors in Moundsview has some pretty good meats at a fair price.

[4WheelinMama]

Nerstrand Meats in Nerstrand Minnesota. They have the best variety of beef sticks and they have some awesome smoked turkey chunks.

[mthunter]

Knaus's Sausage House in Kimball. Smoked chops, Jalapeno sticks and if you like bloody marys then you gotta try the sweet horseradish pickles.

[Rippinlip]

My wife (4WheelinMama) forgot to add that Nerstrand Meats has Ribeye Steaks that are sooooooo tender that they can be cut with a butter knife! Of course that is if she cooks and not me.

The way deer hunting is going this year, we may be buying more beef than I was planning.

[crothmeier]

Schmidts meat market in nicollet hands down!

[Double D]

Deutschland Meats in Sanborn is a good place.

Marty who runs the place speaks fluent German so you know the sausage has to be great.

DD

[charliepete]

Some of my favorites already stated:

Osseo Meat Market (Great Ribeyes) - Osseo MN

McDonalds Meat Market (awesome snack sticks) - Clear Lake MN

Louies Meat Market (Great sausage) - Cumberland Wisconsin

Some of my favorites not mentioned:

Nueske's - Wittenberg WI (Hands down the best bacon produced)

Newton Meats - Newton WI (Great Bacon smoked fresh)

Nolecheck Meats - Thorp WI (Great everything)

On a side note I have a deal going with my old college roomate. We call it 'Bacon of the Month' club. The deal is we buy 2 lbs of bacon at every meat market we come across and exchange once year. I think we'll keep it up until one of us dies of a heart attack.

[Hd Wtr Hillbilly]

RJ's Meats Hudson, WI

excellent brats

bacon is great

pretty much everything is mouth watering

[Swimbait2009]

Not sure if this was already posted...I may have even posted it already, but I wanted to make sure it was listed:

Len's in Stillwater, MN

Great guys work in there! Great prices on quality meat!

[riverwader]

One that I like the inferno brats.

Sentyrz in NorthEast.

Plus you cant go wrong with Beer and Meat all at one store.

[Flying_Fort]

Greg's Meats, Hampton, MN they have a Jalapeno Cheese Beef Stick that is incredible.

Schmidt's in Nicollet is very good. We used to get out deer processed there.

[deadeye]

I know it isn't a Small Market so to speak, but the Hy-Vee in New Ulm makes the BEST brats out of anywhere I have tried. My Dad worked in the Bakery there a long time ago and IDK the guys name who ran the butchers shop in there but he always made the best stuff. Im not sure if hes still there, but they use his recepies still and we go down there a couple times a year to get brats.

Schmidts in Nicollet gets a vote too. My Grandma would always drive up there from the farm in Lewisville and load up on stuff. The breakfeast sausage was the best.