Minnesota's Best Meat and Butcher Shops

Minneapolis–St. Paul

Clancey’s Meat & Fish
Minneapolis

More than just an artisan butcher shop, Clancey’s is a community hub that features locally raised meats, house-made sausage, and farm-fresh veggies. For those looking to pick up whole ducks and rabbits for their cooking, they can be found here, too.

It’s also a great spot to grab breakfast or lunch. They make hearty sandwiches with their high-quality cuts on bread from the Minneapolis bakery Patisserie 46 until it runs out. Look out for proud ingredient lists throughout their takeout menu — ones that reference everything from regional mayo and mustard companies to raw, grated horseradish. Not to mention daily specials like duck banh mi and a seasonal club sandwich.

Everett’s Foods
Minneapolis

Neighborhood butcher shop Everett’s Foods has been family-owned and operated since 1956. Aside from the usual staples, they grind their own sausages and smoke popular cuts like ribs in two on-site smokers. Their beef jerky is next-level, and you can find unique deli meats in loaf form, including slabs of fryer-ready bologna and slices studded with olives or jalapeños.

Don’t skip a treat for your pooch, either! Smoked dog bones are available for your four-legged friend.

Hackenmueller Meats
Robbinsdale

Downtown Robbinsdale’s oldest business is a butcher shop that has been in operation for more than 120 years. Ande St. Michael and Dustan Posch became its new owners in 2025 and have every intention of keeping their snappy old-fashioned wieners, thick-cut bacon, and house-ground beef in rotation. Find ham spread and head cheese alongside house-made smoked meat sticks, bockwursts, bratwursts, ring bologna, and long tubes of traditional German-style “yard sausage.”

The specialty makes sense; many Minnesotans have German roots. In fact, it’s often the state’s largest self-reported ancestral group, which helps explain why our meat shops often know a thing or two about sausages.

J. Morten’s
Minneapolis

If you’re looking for swanky cuts, look no further than J. Morten’s. It’s where you’ll find locally raised, heritage-bred Berkshire and Duroc pork with beautiful marbling and flavor or Iberico ham, which derives its depth of flavor from a strict diet of acorns, herbs, and grass. Japanese and Australian wagyu are imported, too, and USDA prime cuts are dry-aged on-site so you can sear tender steaks as soon as you get home.

Kramarczuk’s
Minneapolis

Kramarczuk’s has been serving and selling Eastern European fare in northeast Minneapolis since 1954. Each sausage is made in-house, including bulk chubs of hot Italian sausage, fresh and smoked bratwurst, and summer sausage. The meat case features flavors from around the world, including mild pork Krakowska, South African boerewors, coarse-ground Ukrainian kovbasa, and jaternice, a Czech-style sausage made with pork liver and grains.

If you’d rather sample their signature meats and other regional specialties first, Kramarczuk’s has a large cafeteria-style restaurant next door to its butcher shop and bakery. Be sure to load your tray to the brim with cabbage rolls, pierogis, several kinds of smoked sausage, and hearty stews like borscht, goulash, and bigos.

Morelli’s Market
St. Paul

This family-owned Italian meat market and liquor store, which opened in 1915, now sells more spirits, beer, and wine than meat. Don’t let that deter you from checking out freezers filled with trimmed short ribs (perfect for pasta sauce), Bavarian-style brats, and house-made Neapolitan sausages. They also offer homemade pasta, pizza sauces, ravioli, spices, imported pastas, and desserts.

Pangea Halal Market
Coon Rapids

Minnesota’s growing Muslim population has led to more small markets that specialize in Halal-certified meat. Pangea caters to the culinary traditions of community members from East Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, making it easier to explore the flavors of the world within the metro area. Beef and chicken are available, along with Minnesota-raised lamb and goat.

Don’t skip lunch at their hot bar — the bread is baked in-house and stuffed with everything from ethereal falafel to chicken and beef shawarma — and be sure to bring some sweet treats from the bakery, too.

St. Paul Meat Shop
St. Paul

Sustainability is the name of the game for this neighborhood meat shop. By partnering with local farmers committed to humanely raising their animals, St. Paul Meat Shop operates a whole-carcass butchering program that minimizes waste. Find high-quality beef, pork, chicken, turkey, and more at their location on Grand Avenue.

If you’re hungry when you visit, grab a hand pie or pasty from the deli case; an ever-evolving sandwich like a “ham situation” made with Comté, mustard, pickles, and potato chips; or a burrito stuffed with St. Paul’s own barbacoa, carnitas, or chicken tinga.

Valerie’s Carnicería
Minneapolis

This Mexican market tucked away on Nicollet specializes in Latino meats and grocery items. Find staples for your next Mexican feast, such as arracheras (thin skirt steak, ready for marinating and grilling), pre-seasoned pork dotted with pineapple for al pastor tacos, honeycomb tripe for menudo, and chorizo. You can also find traditional clay cookware, spices, peppers, and produce.

 

Greater Minnesota

Greg’s Meats
Hampton

Greg’s isn’t afraid to brag about the accolades they’ve racked up over the past 40-plus years — more than 260 national and state championship sausages and smoked meats, to be specific. The Greg himself was inducted into the Smoked Meat Hall of Fame in 2007, so you know they’re not fooling around.

Greg’s Meats offers all their house-made sausages in fully cooked, fresh, and smoked varieties, featuring exciting flavors like blueberry wild rice, chili dog, nacho, chicken Hawaiian bacon, and chicken chipotle ranch. They also sell a wide variety of ring-style breakfast sausages, cheesy hash brown breakfast brats, and unique summer sausage flavors.

As if all of this wasn’t enough, they have jerky, snack sticks, and standard butcher fare like choice pork and beef cuts. The cherry on top? If you make it up to Greg’s after hours, never fear — they have a 24/7 vending machine stocked with a rotating selection of their award-winning sausages, jerky, and snack sticks.

Lakes Processing
Detroit Lakes

This Detroit Lakes meat-and-seafood stop is an award-winning, no-frills, family-run establishment that has been serving the community since 1997. While they are known for their skill with breaking down game and packaging it to customers’ specifications, they regularly make smoked sausages to order. From traditional brats and smoked salmon to more adventurous flavors like tomato basil and wood-fired pizza, they keep it fresh, playful, and creative for customers.

McDonald’s Meats
Clear Lake

All meat, no bull. This McDonald’s isn’t slinging tiny patties; they’re about as full-service as you can get from a butcher shop. They can custom-process beef and pork for customers, and they butcher and smoke wild game and fish.

With 26 varieties of jerky (they’re known as “The Jerky Shop”) and more than 60 kinds of fresh and smoked sausages, they are sure to have a little something for every carnivore. They also have three 24/7 outdoor meat vending machines offering 80 different items, including bacon, hot dogs, salmon, ground meats, and snack sticks.

They offer regular samples of their products, too, so you can try before you buy. If you make it up during one of their sidewalk cookouts, grab a burger or brat to benefit a local organization doing good in the community.

Schmidts Meat Market
Nicollet

This family-owned meat market makes meal prep easy by providing a wide selection of fresh, frozen, and smoked sausages in classic and adventurous flavors such as Reuben, Philly steak, and dill pickle. Marinated chicken and pork chops take the guesswork out of satisfying your taste buds at your next cookout.

Additional offerings include old-world-style sausages like blood sausage, Braunschweiger, and liver sausage, along with deli meats, cheeses, and salads to prepare you for your next picnic. Hunters rejoice — they offer custom cuts, wild game processing, and supplies for those who want to process their own meat.

Thielen Meats
Pierz

Worker-owned after being family-run for four generations, this full-service meat and seafood shop is more than a century old. They are well known for their lean, smoky bacon.

Utilizing old-fashioned methods ensures traditional flavors remain relevant today, but that doesn’t mean they lack creativity. They currently offer more than 100 sausage flavors and make it easier for customers by providing a wide variety of ready-to-cook, pre-marinated cuts, chops, and meatloaves.

Their staff is known for being well-informed and friendly, and they also offer resources on their website about cooking and storage to help customers get the most out of their purchases. Customer service is a top priority, and it shows in everything from their diverse product offerings to the way they interact with shoppers.

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