Mannino’s Market

Just made my first trip to Mannino’s yesterday in a long time (have been away from St. Charles). The quality is top notch and so are the prices. I highly recommend them to anyone in the area.

Nice place, wide selection of meat and deli items, good prices.

We got steaks and potato salad tonight and all was FANTASTIC! Mustard and loaded potato salads were the best store bought ive ever had. Filet was great and even the sirloin was tender.

This is a nice little Italian style market in the heart of Cottleville. The meat selection is excellent. The meat quality is second to none! The all beef hotdogs are absolutely the best anywhere! The customer service also has that hometown feel.

Oh my gosh does my family love Manninos… Everything from here is truly amazing. They have great filets, yummy kabobs, and awesome potato and pasta salads! I love their baked potato salad. I truly think their steaks are so much better than from anywhere else! You can totally taste the difference. They also have Boar’s Head. This is definitely where we pick up meat for our Sunday grill!

I am visiting St. Charles from Bastrop Texas and was looking for a place to buy quality meat. I Unilocaled Mannino’s and decided to give it a try.
It is a small store packed with quality produce, meat, baked goods and a few other fun food items.
I could have spent several hundred dollars easily because the prices for everything I priced was reasonable and of high quality.
the first things you see when you come into the store are the pies… I could smell fresh apple pie. It was hard but I resisted the urge to buy a pie.
As I made my way down the produce section I was impressed with the small but high quality selection they have. Very fresh and fairly priced. The Asparagus was some of the best asparagus I have seen in many trips to the grocery store.
I bought two fillet of beef (approx 8 oz) each. They were $ 5.99 each. Incredibly tasty meat that you could cut with a butter knife. The meat wasn’t labeled «Prime» but it was as good as the Prime I normally buy in this cut of meat. The price was about ¹⁄₃ the cost of the same cut at Schnucks. We also bought some Italian sausage which I plan to cook tomorrow.
Our final purchase for this trip (we will be back) was a hot loaf of Italian bread.
The folks were knowledgeable and friendly, the meat and produce was of the highest quality and the price was fair.
I wish I had a Mannino’s Market in my hometown.

My first experience here was a life altering event. Never in my life had I driven 45 minutes away to buy meat. NEVER. But my buddy assured me this was the only place he would ever buy meat, it was THAT good. That was about 5 years ago.
Four years ago, I moved to St. Charles, and the first thing I looked up was Mannino’s. (I’m not joking-​I was excited to have my own house and as a result, my first BBQ Grill!)
Mannino’s has the best filets I’ve ever had. The smokehouse burgers are fantastic. The beer brats, I traditionally hate brats, but the beer brats make my mouth water. Kabobs are great, steaks are great, roast cuts, GREAT!
The prices are great as well. Boars Head meat is as good as or better than most grocery store prices, and the produce isn’t far off either. (speaking of produce, the pre-​seasoned potatoes are a MUST TRY!)
My traditional stop here is for about 8 smokehouse burgers, 4 filets, a roast, 4 seasoned potatoes, and a bag or two of their house cut fries. The meat is better fresh, but I’m too busy to go every day, so I cook a bit on the day of purchase and freeze the rest for later in the week.
Everyone here is friendly as well. Even the customers on the days with the longest waits are enjoyable. Most places, a line is like the pit of whining and complaints, but when in Mannino’s meat line, people just seem to feel lucky just to know about this place! (It’s true!)
Hat’s off to one of the best hole in the wall businesses in the area. The only thing that could be better is the parking situation, which can be a challenge, but it’s worth every lap around the lot while you wait for a spot to open up!

St. Charles County isn’t necessarily the mecca of creativity and originality. It would appear that the further one drives from the city the further one gets from the unqiue flavors of urban life. My job takes me to St. Chaz a few times a week, and I am sick of eating at chain restaurants.
I finally asked one of the secretaries where I could find something different, and she sent me to downtown Cottleville, a little nook lost in the depths of St. Charles County, for a little taste of Mannino’s Market.
Right away, I was impressed. All the chalk covered signs pointed to fresh meat and produce, and the staff was very friendly. I ordered the Mama Mannino’s: an italian meats trio with provel cheese on a toasted hoagie. They use Boar’s Head meat, perhaps not original but certainly nice quality. I was very satisfied. And it was only $ 4.99!
I’m definitely going to work my way down the sandwich menu instead of pounding another Big Mac!

This is a gem! It is pretty small, and sometimes the line can be outrageous, but it is worth the wait. I treat this place basically like my refridgerator. I don’t keep much meat, if any at my house. I just go here and pick up whatever I want to eat that evening, and it is fresh and delicious. There are a lot of very reasonable items to choose from. I love their Filet Mignon, for around 5.49 each, and their bacon is great for the weekend breakfasts!