Founded by Don and Sally Rains in 1982, Don’s Meat Shop is a family-owned Hixson butcher shop making hand-cut meats and house-made sausages for Chattanooga-area cooks. Today, Donnie and Will Rains work side by side behind the counter, carrying three generations of family skill into custom cuts, fresh in-house grinds, and the specialty meats that set the shop apart from a grocery store. The business has served the community for more than 40 years.
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Snider Bros. MeatsSix generations of the Snider family’s butcher-shop tradition come together at Snider Bros. Meats, a family-owned Salt Lake City meat market offering hand-cut meats and custom preparation. The family opened its first butcher shop in 1938 and brought the business to Utah in 1981, opening the Salt Lake City shop in 1992; today, its butchers still use family recipes while preparing orders to customers’ specifications. The shop also draws on its professional pitmasters to share barbecue know-how alongside its deli and homemade offerings.PITMAN, PA
HiWayMeatsFamily-owned since 1963, HiWayMeats remains rooted in its beginnings as a neighborhood butcher shop serving local families from Womelsdorf. The USDA-inspected market is known for fresh, hand-cut meat and custom processing shaped around customer needs.WOMELSDORF, PA
House of MeatsHouse of Meats is a family-owned butcher shop serving Northwest Ohio since 1972, with six Toledo-area locations offering fresh meat and prepared favorites such as its homemade kielbasa. The business remains in its founding family, with third-generation co-owners Jim Meads and Kate Horner, and it also provides deer processing at its Alexis and Point Place locations. Its stores are built around an old-fashioned butcher’s-counter approach: trained staff, fair prices, and help choosing what to cook.TOLEDO, OH
Holzman Meats & DeliStarted by Erv Holzman in Montgomery in the mid-1970s, Holzman Meats & Deli remains a family-run butcher shop and deli known for hand-cut meats, house-made sausage and prepared foods. Erv’s son Ron now carries on the business, which has grown to twice the size of the original store while keeping its family presence at the counter. Cincinnati Magazine named it one of the area’s best butcher shops in 2016 and has featured its pot pies.CINCINNATI, OH