Armando & Sons Meat Market

Very good cuts of meats at fair price and good service! Also, has a lot of Mexican groceries.

This is my first time going there and I will not be back. My friends have been recommending this place and I gave it shot and no thank you. I have never walked in a butcher shop and it smelled like dead meat. That’s just nasty!!! I bought meat there anyway and needless to say we got sick from the meat and well enough said. I will stick to my supermarket meat at least there I know that they follow cleanliness guidelines.

Best place to buy any fresh meat

This place is my absolute jam. Buying meat at a supermarket is just not really appealing to me. Need something cut, deboned or skinned? The butchers have your back. There’s no feeling bad over a request because the place is busy, and there’s no sass from the butchers here — I’ve had other butchers give me the, «why do you want me to debone this chicken if you can already buy it boneless for $XX more». The butchers here fully expect to spend some time tending to each customer. The wait can be long (don’t expect to get in and out in under 1 hr) but they have literally every cut of meat you could ever request for very low prices. Smoked pork and poultry items too! Get your bacon sliced just the way you like it, for $ 4/​lb.
Oh, grab a loaf of Puerto Rican bread next to checkout. You won’t be disappointed.
I am not buying meat anywhere else if I can help it – they have a customer for life!

Meat market extraordinaire! Every cut of beef, pork, chicken imaginable. Also goat and various small fowl. Fresh, clean, and all reasonably priced. The butchers are friendly and patient — cut to order. It’s worth the trip! (try to avoid shopping on the weekend — the place is packed to the rafters)

Really excellent meat selection at great prices. The meat clerks are really nice. The cashiers at the front could be nicer.
The only drawback is they touch the bags after slicing the meat and then you get meat juice on your hands. There hand sanitizer pumps are never full so it’s kind of gross.

This is the only place I shop for my meats. The quality is always good & fresh. No matter how little or how much you buy of an item they will always cut it just the way you want it. If you buy in bulk you will get discounts as well. Each location has a little cafeteria with traditional fresh food. Yum !!

delicious fresh meat — fresher and cheaper than the grocery store. seasoned meats /​sausages /​etc are also yummy. same goes for the cafeteria food. groceries and produce from all over the world are available. the service is great — one example is we recently ordered a case of boneless chicken breast (40 lbs) for a dinner at our social club — it cost $ 67 and they cubed the whole 40lbs for no charge. we also ordered 24lbs of sirloin ($ 100) which they cut into 2-​lb roasts for no extra charge. caveat: get there before 10am or you will be waiting in line!

Great butcher shop. There are always workers at the band saws furiously cutting all cuts of meat. Somehow they seem to have all of their fingers intact.
I don’t eat any meat anymore, but I really miss Armando’s NY strip cut thick. They also have a café area with prepared foods and snacks for hungry shoppers.
It’s the kind of place where everyone speaks Spanish, and the meat is sold by the tens of lbs. Also, I swear they sell dinosaur meat here.
Summer is almost over, so get your grilling in now!

Armando’s used to be one of those semi-​secret bargain spots that you’d share only with your closest friends for fear that if the word gets out, prices will rise exponentially. Fast forward 3 years from my first visit, and alas, the word is indeed out, the parking lot is newly paved and striped, the lines have grown even looooooooooonger, and the prices have come up to be comparable to mass market grocers like Shaw’s or Stop & Shop. I’ll still come on occasion for their good prices on spices, but for meat, I’m now on the hunt for the next big bargain.

Don’t go anyplace else. You will find everything you need here! The turnover is amazing and the food is always fresh

Planned to get the meat (beef) portion of our New Year’s Eve meal there — ended up pretty much got everything else we needed there as well.
Two huge counters of butchers ready to help you find your perfect cut.
Fresh Produce.
Crazy people yelling multiple languages!
Awesome experience overall!

Armando’s is my place to go, you’ll never see me inside a stop and shop since I discovered this place. All my meat and most of my other ingredients I get there.
The boys behind the counter are the friendliest people I know, they smile and joke with you, cut your meat in any way you want and always tell you «See you tomorrow!»
If you can avoid the place on the first week of the month, do that, it’s a nightmare in there, it’s just so busy.
The cafeteria is –delicious– the empanadas are great and the rest is pretty awesome for post meat-​shopping lunch.
I think my love for this place is 50% because of the great selection and 50% super customer service. Ask them about buying in bulk, it gets cheaper as you buy more.

This is an awesome butcher. Very clean. Excellent prices. Great meat. They also have a good selection of Mexican groceries. There is a also a little restaurant place in here too, never ate there but it smelled good. And there’s an atm inside as well.

I went to Armando’s for the first time on August 19, 2011.
We (the Hus and I) purchased steaks and Colombian chorizo (there were 5 options of chorizo alone). While I was at Armando’s, I was so impressed, overwhelmed, excited and intrigued by the available items I began to take a list of the impressive, overwhelming, exciting and intriguing items I came across. Rather than attempt to regale you with a review of this magnificent and authentic treasure of shop, I will let the list I took down whilst meandering speak for itself. Here we go…
It smells like feet in here.
Produce! What’s ‘bitter orange’? Looks like weird limes.
Multiple varieties of sausage: Chorizo, longaniza, & sausagy (?). Lots.
Kabobs
Panela (fist-​sized raw sugar cane blocks)
Guava paste (what do we do with this?)
Manioc flour (sour and sweet) — time to make Pão de Queijo!!!
HUGE Mate selection (& Mate cups! With straws!)
Hominy (dried & canned varieties)
Dried peppers: Japanese, costeno, new Mexico, negro, chipotle, guajillo
Palm oil (Dende!)
Marmite
Mojo Juice (a liquid blend of vinegar, orange juice, lemon, garlic, onion and spices)
Cactus pods, fresh & pickled
Jars of unprocessed sugar cane
Horchata!
Pepper paste (hot yellow Amarillo, panca, rocoto hot, and with garlic)
Hearts of palm (palmitos!)
Cow feet (ENORMOUS — like, really — entire COWS FEET!)
Goat head (um… I don’t like looking at this)
Tripe
Rabbit
Quail
Ox tail
Testicles
Frozen burnt goat (whaaaaaa???)
Poultry is all sizes & forms
An entire counter dedicated to all parts of beef
An entire counter dedicated to all parts of pork
***A man carrying an whole pig just walked through the store! I have a crush on him.***
Bacalao (dried & bagged)
Queso fresco
Queso blanco
Some Spanish fresh cheese… never see this before, but it’s gooooood…
Frozen burnt goat (whaaaaaa???)
I love it here. LOVE. IT. The meats were delish, especially the aforementioned chorizo. I cannot wait to get more, grill it & share it with my food soul-​mate, Brain Ditchfield.
Before I forget, they cut our steaks fresh off of a side of beef, to order. That’s how they do at Armando’s. Awesome, kids. Awesome.

I love, love, LOVE Armando’s!
Besides it being incredibly cheap, the meat is second to none. Even the beef chuck ($ 2.50/lb) is incredible. You can come in here and get three hefty steak filets for $ 7. You can get an entire meal for about $ 12. I’m lucky enough to live across the street from this place so I come here all the time.
From the outside, you think… Bodega? Sure they’ve got a lot of Goya products, but between the meat and chicken counters and the full-​on grocery store, it’s a whole lot more than you expect. The meat counter takes up the entire back wall, and is loaded with marinated meats, kabobs, and all different types of sausages and chicken wings.
They’ve got weird stuff like «burnt goat» too, but I’m not that adventurous.
Bonus… they have a little deli in the hallway towards the back entrance where you can get sandwiches and different types of lunch.
I love Armando’s. The meat is always amazing, the produce selection is large and always fresh, they have fresh bread, a cooler section, cereal. pretty much everything you need. But seriously, get a steak from this place, you won’t be disappointed.

Armando & Sons has every cut of beef, chicken, and pork I can possibly think of. I got the best turkey I ever had at this place. They also a fantastic collection of ethnic foods. It also as a snack bar serving hot foods but, I never tried it. Armando & Sons Meat Market have the largest and most complete offal section I have ever seen.
What is a offal?
Sweetbreads (thalamus glands)
livers
bones
tongue
brains
chitterlings
gizzards
hearts
testicles
feet
kidneys
bellies
tripe
ears
jowls (cheeks)
ect.
Wikipedia article on offals: