Schmeisser’s Sausage

Try their sausages and you won’t be disappointed! Delicious Thuringers and smoked sausages. Thanks for being there and offering lots of delicious meats!

Great landjaeger and thuringer sausages. will keep on going back.

Pretty darn good butcher shop on Milwaukee. I know some people complain that the steaks are overpriced, and I suppose they might be — I usually get the whole loin or roast at Costco and cut them up myself, so I never buy steaks here. What I buy here are sausages, ground beef and burgers. The sausages are awesome (although my wife complains about the smell) and my kids love the beef sticks and the spicy Hungarian sausages. They grind all their own beef (hint — if you can’t see the machine on which your beef is being ground, don’t buy it), and their Salisbury Steaks make great burgers. I buy them by the box, and everyone raves about them.

Decent selection and ok quality but way overpriced. Prices are definitely higher when compared to other butchers and you’re better off shopping for steaks at Costco or Sam’s. Save your money, I guarantee you won’t taste a difference.

Ho-​Ka turkey for Thanksgiving-​was great. I think that the pork products at Schmeisser’s are the best. I got a beautiful pork roast, cooked it up and it was really good. No weird flavors, just good quality meat with a good grain, good color, and better flavor. Also got a pot roast (blade cut), that was huge. It served us five meals (three people); several meals with potatoes, vegetables, etc., but the last was the best, as I made beef potpie out of the leftovers. Pricy? Not really, when you consider that it is food going to your family that is local, clean, and nutritious. And, for the first time, I am going to get one of their fresh ducks for Christmas… hope I don’t mess up cooking it!

Making your sausage sounds like a fun thing to do, right? Why bother when you have this place? Great stuff, great staff and way cheaper than a lot of other butcher shops around town.
Load up a cooler bag and be stocked for a week or the summer.
Don’t forget the dried sauages here. Some of the best around — Landjager is tops.
They supply many of the German Fests around also…

I love this shop. All fresh, good sausages. I usually buy thuringers, fresh brats, cooked brats, italian sausages, ribeye steaks, hamburger patties and the very best Lantjaeger and Hungarian sausage I have ever had.
Cash only but there is an ATM inside though with a $ 3 charge.
The staff is very patient for the novice shopper and will make great recommendations.

Have been using them for large and small functions for several years. I have always been very pleased with their products. They are friendly, courteous, well informed and very helpful. This type of business is hard to find with all of the above. This is the reason they have been around for such a long time. Great Brats!

Only been here once, but I already like this place a lot.
The guy that helped me with my order was awesome, and very helpful.
Now I’m just countin’ down to dinner time, so I can sear this gorgeous Prime Rib Eye.
Never having been here before, I decided to try a variety of products. I grabbed some bacon, some of their frozen soups (Cream of Potato, and Tomato Rice), a couple of their «Cheesy Italian Sausages», and a few of their spicy Uzinger «sassagages». Can’t wait to try it all. If it tastes as good as it looks, I’ll be back here.
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Nice little mom & pop butcher shops like this are far too few these days. I’d rather support this place and feel like I can trust them more than a big corporate chain butcher like Jewel, or Dominick’s, or anywhere else really. I like that this place looks old, like they’ve been in business for a long time. That instills confidence that I can trust the food I’m getting from them. That’s a tough thing to come by these days.
Just be sure to bring CASH or CHECK. No credit cards accepted. I can appreciate that too. There’s nothing wrong with a business choosing NOT to pay the credit card companies.

They only take cash. Their original smoked ham/​w bone is dreadful lacking taste. When you buy strip steaks where they are priced at approx, $ 23 each (1 ½ inch thick) and they are not Kobe Beef or from Neiman Ranch, you know you are being jerked on. The sausages are not that distinctive in taste and certainly not in the gourmet arena. The breakfast sausage is so ordinary and bland that it is insulting. Their homemade/​prepared foods are, again, ordinary and lack imagination and appropriate herbs/​seasoning.
The kicker is the sales staff. Rude and more rude would be an understatement and I have been at their shop several times. Their pricepoint is greater than at Wholefoods prices but without the quality. I asked for a rack of lamb, Frenched, and was told that they really dont carry them as their customers are not into highend products and if ordered, they would be frozen at an unreal price… FROZEN. This place is not exceptional nor unique. Ive lived in San Francisco for most of my life and this market would not have survived.
The inside ATM is a slap in the customers face. They get a kick back from the ATM machine… This is not my idea of a high end meat market.

Im a huge bone in ribeye fan… came here and got 2 bone in ribeyes each 2 inches thick both combining to come 2 just over 3lbs. The quality was great, the fat content was perfect, but my only complaint and the only reason I didnt give 5 stars was due to the price. For the 2 steaks with tax came to $ 110.00. For that price you can have a dinner for 2 at mortons… i will be back because the meat was great so if you dont mind paying a little bit more for quality this place is for you

My husband brought home some dry-​aged ribeyes from here yesterday, and they were the best we have ever had. We usually buy fresh organic meat or go out to a steakhouse, but made at home in the broiler to medium rare, these were the most flavorful, even compared to the best restaurant steak we’ve eaten. We still have burgers and brats to make, but I know the burgers are fantastic (have had them before) and could not wait to share how delicious the steaks were!
Thank you so much!

OVERPRICED! ! Quality has gone way down since son took over. The new help are not butcher’s and hardly speak english. Quality of meat has gone down too. I have found same beef at half the price at Sams club. I’m sorry. I guess they are just trying to keep their profit margin.

Schmeissers has the best homemade sausage. For many years now it’s our tradition to make a variety of their sausages on Christmas Eve along with their potato salad and sauerkraut. All of their meats are outstanding and at no time have I been disappointed in anything I’ve purchased. Thumbs up to Schmeissers!

If you like meat and sausage, you must come here! No seriously, leave your computer and drive over now!
Their meats look great and taste even better. The boiled ham (for lunch meat) was so fresh and tasty. The homemade Italian sausage and spicy Thuringers were amazing. I’m cooking up brats tomorrow and I can’t wait!
They also have a large selection of German mustard and frozen homemade soups. While we were shopping, a guy from the back came out and offered us a taste of his homemade cream of potato soup that he just finished making. Who could resist potato soup?! He handed us two small cups of soup. As we were about to taste our first spoonful, another guy from behind the counter said, «Wait! You need some cheese in there» and handed us two slices of cheddar. It was delicious! They were so friendly and offered a tour of their meat counter but we were in a hurry and had to decline. I’ve driven past this place hundreds of times and I feel like a fool for not coming in sooner.

Oh yeah, Schmeisser’s is where it’s at for meat. My husband and I got a bit sick of paying decent money for crappy meat at Jewel and Dominick’s so we decided to switch to a butcher. Schmeisser’s is hands down, the place to go. Prices are outstanding for the quality. The meat is terrific, especially the flat iron’s, the homemade sausage (I highly suggest the hot italian), and Brat’s are too yummy, and even the prepackaged stuff that is frozen is top notch. I originally gave this 5 stars, but they don’t take credit cards. I tend to live by a rule, if you don’t take credit cards I don’t shop with you, but I can’t pass up the Schmeisser’s. Get with the times people! It’s 2010, Visa and Mastercard are the way to go.

Best meats and sausages in the Chicago area, period. I’ve had everything from the polish sausage to the burgers, and it’s all great.
The service is spectacular, and I love how they wear the old school butchers gear. Really makes you feel like you’re picking up your meat from someone who really cares about it.
Whenever I’m having a BBQ or going camping, you know I’ll be stopping in.
It is cash only, but there is an ATM in the store. A good thing about their ATM is that even though there is a fee to use it, it gives you a coupon that you can use to save a few bucks! Great idea.
Keep up the good work!

What a great place! This reminds me of a country meat market with the convienience of city location. The aged beef can be cut to order looks like it will set me back a pretty penny but most likely blow away any previous experience I’ve had outside of a chop house.
I settled on a snacking summer sausage which had all the flavor I recall from a country meat market my father took me to when he would visit his child hood home near LaCross WI.
I also picked up some Schmeisser patties (hamburger) seasoned with the Schmeisser secret recipe. They were great on the grill although needed tending or would catch flame quickly.
The smoked Hungarian sausages were a true treat.
For all wanting for an old school butcher shop this is the place.

Five stars for the Ho-​Ka turkey they sell. Local, fresh, no preservatives or chemicals — it is seriously the best tasting turkey you will ever have. I believe you can also order it smoked as well. Pricey, but once you get a taste of that you will never go back to Jennie-​O again. It even converted a vehement turkey hater!

I love meat. And Schmeisser’s is, simply, meat-​lovers nirvana.
This family-​owned butcher shop has been around since the ‘50s, and the butchers and sausage makers are the finest around. Very knowledgeable: tell them what you want and how many you’re feeding, and they can recommend a cut, tell you how much to get and slice it to order. On my last visit, I was ordering veal cutlets to make Veal Marsala that night — the butcher even pounded them flat for me!
There are no signs next to the cuts of meat on display, so you either have to know your meat or ask a butcher if they have such-​and-​such (and they do). Or just point and say, «I’ll take 3 of those.» Either way, you won’t go wrong — all meats/​sausages here are choice and as fresh as you can get. They put Jewel and Dominick’s to shame.
Our faves are the rib-​eyes, the Italian sausage and the veal (oh, the veal is heavenly!) along with the Schmeisser patties — best hamburgers you’ll find outside a restaurant. Seriously, it’s so good that people travel long distances to come here and stock up.
It’s pricey — all the good things in life are. You won’t be disappointed.