MSP - Help me find a butcher!!

[dombey]

Hi All,

I am in need of a good butcher - the catch is that they need to be able to go in the back and cut me up some meat - not just have a bunch of vacuum-packed meats in the meatlocker (a rarity nowadays). Special order is annoying and I'd love to avoid it if at all possible.

Specifically, I need to be able to get Beef Brisket POINTS, not FLATS (which are the only thing I can find in TC thus far), and pork bellies. Not your normal everyday cuts, I know - but that's why I'm asking!

I've tried:

All the chain groceries (Byerly's, Cub, Rainbow, Kowalski's)
Von Hanson's

...any help is appreciated!

[cleanyerplate]

My family goes to Mackenthun's in St. Bonifacius. A real, bona-fide butcher. Good people. Call first to see if you can get specific cuts. Then get in the car and go! It's a ways out there, but worth the drive. They also have fantastic hotdogs, jerky, and hams that will make you forever scorn the ham-offerings of your local supermarket.

MACKENTHUN'S SAUSAGE & DELI St. Bonifacius MN 952 446-1234

[jim n]

Also worth a try is Hackenmueller Meats in Robbinsdale.
4159 W Broadway Ave

[cookkevin]

Hackenmuellers in Robbinsdale is a great meat market, there butchers are the best in town, try the beef rib eye, and the home smoked hams, they are my favs, but everything from there is great.

[dombey]

thanks all!! I'll give these places a shot.

[ibew292]

Everett's Foods & Meats 1833 E. 38th Street, Minneapolis, 612.729.6629. I have always gotten what I wanted from them. Some times I had to order it but it was worth the wait.

[elrushbo]

Thanks! I've been wondering about this, cause I moved to the MSP area from Ann Arbor, MI, and good meat and produce in that much smaller area was very easy to find. Seems more like a quest around MSP.

[prindleeric]

Very happy to find this thread. Can anyone tell me whether any of the places listed, or any others in MSP (particularly South Minneapolis), specialize in:

- Organic / grass-fed / free-range meast?
- USDA Prime beef?
- Lamb?

[soupkitten]

try clancey's (above) for local, grass-fed, artisanal, charcuterie

any of the co-ops for organic & free-range meat, poultry, lamb
http://twincitiesfood.coop/locations/
the wedge in particular has a good sustainable butcher counter

i believe you can generally get usda prime at the counter at lund's

ready meats (ne), everett's (s mpls), & mike's in st paul are good regular butchers that should do custom orders & cuts.

[prindleeric]

Thanks! I just checked out Clancey's, and it is definitely what I was looking for. I normally shop at The Wedge, but their selection is a bit thin, and I feel like at least some of their meat has been frozen. (Could be wrong.)

[soupkitten]

yes some of the meat & poultry from smaller farmer-producers will have been flash-frozen. you can sometimes get never-frozen sustainable meats at the farmers markets in summertime, or put in a special order, but it's erratic.

[AGallagh]

Also in Minneapolis is Ready Meats
3550 Johnson St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
Phone: [phone]

I can personally attest to the pork belly. Good, friendly, local, reliable, and accommodating.

[mcgeary]

In Minneapolis: Clancey's Meats & Fish
4307 Upton Ave S
[phone]

In St. Paul: Widmer's Supermarket
1936 Saint Clair Ave
[phone]