Silvana Meats

You’re going to pay more per pound than at Safeway but oh man, is it ever worth it! What a great find.

We went there today having heard a few things about it. I must say, contrary to a lot of reviews, the staff was very friendly and helpful and we were new customers. Will let you know what we think of the meat and chicken after we try it. So far so good. Mike and Tony.

I drive 50 miles for this meat market every thing we have tried has been excellent I highly recommend. Garlic sausage excellent I buy 12 or more packages at a time. Tenderloin steak is never been better must try.

I like buying from smaller, independent business owners. I’ve gotten some odds and ends things from Silvana meats in the past, mostly jerky and pepperoni. Last weekend I decided to give them a try for something special so I ordered lamb shanks for a family occasion. The person at the counter said they looked ‘a little big’ but how big could they be? A normal shank is around a pound to a pound and a half so maybe something under two pounds? When I got them home they turned out to be three pounds or more and much too big for ‘lamb’. And as one of my guests confirmed (someone who has raised lambs), I ended up with a half dozen mutton shanks, one of which was brown, smelled bad and ended up in the garbage. Never again. DD Meats gets my business from here on out.

Save your time and money dont make special trip for meat you can get from walmart. Unbelievable people! Bait and switch! First time i came there i wanted fresh ground chuck but i got frozen 1 lb loafs. I needed to make hamburgers
with that. I had to thaw them. Second time my nephew says they have fresh turkeys i was looking for. But said last time they took me he says oh but they have good meat his company goes there. So stupid me tried them again and they disapointed me again. My nephew put in order for 5 fresh turkeys for big family function. They told us they were fresh but when my husband got it home it has been frozen it was ¾ of the way thawed and 2 different brands sealed in white plastic from some commercial production. Not local fresh meat. 5 turkeys cost me $ 258.00. Not worth the money. From now on i will make the long trip to mount lake terrace to Double D meats. Thats fresh meat. Not the crap i got stuck with. I so sick spending good money on business that claim they have the best its a lie. And at Double d meats you see your meat and pick what you want not secretly in back room thawing. Take look for yourself you wont be dissapointed at double dd meats.
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September 15.2015
Update on silvana meats:
Recieved phone call from silvana meats REP. they stated they no way have fresh turkeys but thats not was told and sold to us. Also the hamburger is only fresh on tuesday the rest of week its frozen.
Unbelievable… they call themselves butcher shop. How when it all comes frozen to them. All the Butchershops i been too have meat counter and you see the meat hanging through the windows.

Bought into a ¼ cow and Silvana meats was the company to cut and wrap it. They had a handy form to explain how thick to cut the steaks, if you wanted soup bones, stew meat or ground beef. Very good so far and I like the communication. They said they would call when it was ready. Sadly that is where the happiness ended. No call. I had to call my supplier to find out when it would be ready a month later… silly me I thought they were hanging it and I would get dry aged beef. Went to pick it up, they were very busy. Great sign. Cost for cutting and wrapping was high but fair for a great butcher. Paid and they brought the beef out the back to load. Great butcher they are not. Apparently nobody read the instruction sheet. I had asked for all stew meat and no ground beef…1/3 of the cut and wrapped weight was ground beef. This… very annoying… but I can live with it. People have bad days and I was not driving all the way back. Maybe we got the wrong ¼. Then I got to the steaks… had asked for a thick cut… NY strip was 1″ on one side and ½″ on the other…¾ boneless. WTF? cutting straight is pretty basic. I had expected rib eyes to be ribeyes… not with a shard of bone. Still, long drive, the beef was good, I work with it. … Today I got to my last package. Going to braise the shank. Thawed, unwrapped, it is a piece of pork. Had to write a review as failure was complete. If you cannot read the directions, cut straight, cut a proper steak, or even keep you cow and pig separate, how am I supposed to believe that you can do custom butchering and make sure a customer gets out what they brought in? Will not be back. Recommend inspecting before you pay. May have been a new guy but DAMN! How can you get everything wrong?

Hands down the best spot to buy your meats. I’ve never purchased better quality bacon. Hot links, garlic sausage, smoked german sausage and the brats are all outstanding. They also have all types of vinaigrettes, honey, and sauces.

Been a customer for about 20 years and have never been disappointed.
The chicken, pork and the beef are exceptional in flavor and quality.
5 stars for the pork. The bacon is the best and you will not find this quality in any grocery store or deli. The hams are all natural with not «trites» or «trates».
5 stars for the steaks. If you have a special occasion or just want a memorable family meal, you can’t go wrong with the steaks. Cut to order! The t-​bones cut to 2″ would even impress Fred Flintstone.
5 stars for the chicken. We buy the whole chickens. Better trimmed than the grocery store, it’s a great value. All natural, the flavor is noticeably better than any grocery or deli chicken — and they are usually slightly larger than the grocery store chickens.
A great, locally owned place. Worth the drive.

We have been buying meats from them for years and years, over 25 years. We have bought whole beef orders, half a beef orders. We have bought steak packs and burger between orders. We have bought many other meats they carry. We have always been so happy with the quality. That is until recently, about 8 months ago. We ordered half a beef. We kept getting (as one person put it «Snarky») answers when inquiring about when it would be done. Kept waiting and called them and told it was done. Half of the burger was brownish on the inside, other half fine. Smaller, thinner steaks. No dating on any packaging. Seemed like they just threw a package together instead of the beef we have been ordering for years. I purchased and split a steak pack with my daughter a few days ago. She thought we got shorted on steaks. I noticed that the package of rib steaks was about the size of one steak. I told her that there are two steaks in that package. I tried to grill two ½ inch rib eyes this evening and it was impossible to keep them from overcooking. Instantly med/​well and tough. That is the juiciest cut! So disappointed. I don’t know if there has been a change there or what. Previously I would have given them 5 stars. It’s just not the same :(

Had a blast picking meats at this place. go prepared, we were a bit overwhelmed. have tried the prime rib YUMMM, pork chops fantastic. chicken breasts were HUGE, and just a bit tough, but tasty. will definitely go back.

I haven’t tried their meat yet, but… they got our order wrong and the gal at the front desk was very snarky. She was busy, but still…
I might change the stars if the product is excellent.

Silvana Meats usually does a fine job, but they had one problem the last time they butchered a pig for me. I asked for Italian sausage and I broke into the freezer the other day only to find breakfast sausage.
The side meat that I asked to have more thinly sliced than usual was, though. I will continue to use them, and they are for the most part very accommodating.

Great place to get very good cuts of meat. Their ham is the best you can get. We also take our fresh caught salmon in and they vacuum pack some and smoke some. The smoked salmon is as good as it gets.
Another thing that keeps us coming back is that they are very community oriented and donate to many of the local non-​profits for auctions and fundraisers. They not only have good meat, but they are good people.

NEVER. EVER go anywhere else for your meat!!! a carnivore’s paradise! I have never gotten a bad cut of meat and the customer service is outstanding! Do them and yourself a favor: go online, check out selections then call in your order if you are looking for a larger than one item order. If you have never been here — GO! Get a T-bone…you’ll be hooked.

Haven’t been in a couple of years, but love this place for its old time charm and country flare. Need a place like this to remind us of what personal service was. Also like the meats and especially since I can order what I want, especially if I call ahead. Be there again in the spring when I head camping. AS they say, you can still hear teh MOO in their beef.

We love coming to Silvana Meats — especially for their pepperoni sticks! I love coming to a butcher that can really help you choose a cut of meat depending on what your recipe is.

This was my first visit to Silvana Meats in Arlington but based on my parents raving reviews every time they went, I felt like I had to check it out. It is a very small little store with a huge back room where all the meat is cut and stored. A lot of the meat that they have ready to go and packaged up are bacon, salami, canadian bacon and some various other meats. I picked up some bacon since it was thick cut and looked delicious! The bacon is really high quality and you can tell that they take the time to make it that way. I also picked up salami that was packaged up in the front of the store. I was a little disappointed in the salami though, it was not what I expected. The salami that I enjoy is full of flavor, fat and salt but this one tasted like a lunch meat rather than a salami meat. It was kind of rubbery and had chunks of pepper in it so you got a bite every once in awhile. Basically the salami just was not for me. The last item I got was four top round steaks for dinner. The guys there were really nice and were willing to give me advice on what to do with the steaks and to make sure to marinate them since they can get tough. I really appreciated that advice because I don’t think I would have done so without it!
I got all these items, two packs of bacon, one pack of salami and four steaks for only $ 20, which I think is pretty cheap for the high quality.
I will definitely be going back there my next trip up to Arlington!

All their meat is «All Natural» and it is really good. Last weekend we got some smoked salmon OMG delicious. We’ll be trying the bacon soon!

Silvana meats is the kind of place that you go out of your way to support. When we were processing my elk, they were too busy to cut for me. Did they turn me away? Not exactly. Instead, they helped me figure out how to make the sausage myself thanks to help from them on the spices. They also hooked me up with some beef fat for the burger.
I was very impressed by the fact they spent time to help me even though they did not make money off of me. The sausage seasoning… terrific!

I’ve heard of Silvana Meats but hadn’t been there until a spontaneous exploration of backroads landed me in their parking lot. And I’m very glad I stopped.
I didn’t have enough dinero for everything I wanted to bring home. Ham hocks, steak cuts, pork chops, smoked salmon, ribs, bacon, Landsjagger, pepperoni sticks, etc. They have tamales, burritos enchiladas and eggs, too. They have a bunch of other stuff. They have a great order sheet. Seems more like a Wish List or a Christmas List. I don’t eat a lot of meat and I’m pretty picky about the meat I do eat. I wasn’t disappointed about anything I purchased at Silvana.
I don’t eat a lot of jerky or pepperoni so I was super surprised at how much I enjoyed their variety of pepperoni sticks.