Top Meat Markets in Eugene, OR 97402
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4-Star Meat Co
By fatboy tbone at Citysearch May 11, 2012
We have been buying a half of beef for 13 years and this was our first time at 4star meat company. The meat was very good. The steaks are good tasting and tender. The hamburger is lean and has a good flavor to it. The price per pound was also good. The service with everyone there was excellent. I will go back and tell my friends to try it out. Jim Cregan ...read more
4-Star Meat Co
By ericarden at Citysearch June 17, 2009
I've been to 95% of all the butcher shops in Eugene/Springfield area to be very disappointed with most of them. Almost all of them are nothing more than a convenience store with a small "deli" section in the back.\t\n4-Star is the REAL deal. I promise. Back in NY my grandma owned a butcher shop / slaughter house that I grew up in so I know a thing or two about this.\t\nHowever they are a little confused about "dry aging". They don't do it, dry aging is a whole separate science within its self. However they do cut it fresh with is also hard to find, most meat you'll find is "wet aged" for about 14 days.\t\nAlso most butchers here don't seem to carry natural casing hot dogs that are cooked or smoked. All Ive seen so far are dogs that are raw and much to large to be a real dog, they are more like Italian Sausage or Keilbasa. 4-Star carries some dogs in packages that aren't mainstream. They don't seem to sell individually which is what I'm looking for in a butcher but they might if you ask.\t\nThey jerky is the half inch thick cut chewy style. Not the leathery thin kind. It comes in about 4 flavors. I tried the sweet and pepper jerky. The pepper is def a STRONG pepper flavor so if you like pepper its really good. The sweet isn't super sweet, its more like a sweet wood smoke flavor rather than sugar sweet. Much more for the mainstream. Its very good if you like the chewy style of jerky. ...read more
Long's Meat Market
By ericarden at Citysearch June 13, 2009
I moved here from Portland and didn't really have a particular butcher that I went to. I did go International Meats on Foster and Butcher Boys in Vancouver most often though.\t\nI grew up in a butcher shop. My grandmother owned one actually so my standards are pretty high, plus I'm a NYer so I'm a huge REAL hotdog fan.\t\nI know I know you don't think hotdogs when you think of butcher shop, but let me tell you the ONLY way to have a dog is at one because they use natural casing for bite and its a way for the butchers to get rid of those left over parts that most of use wouldn't eat.\t\nThe kind of dogs I grew up on are pretty close to Andouille Sausage which this place didn't have anything even close to that.\t\nThe steaks looks pretty frikin good though, they actually have dry age cuts! Apparently in the freezer they have Kolby Beef, but that didn't look ANYTHING like it too me. Not enough marbling.\t\nTo me this butcher is more like an expensive grocery store butcher that happens to have some weird meats that you can only get in the freezer.\t\nThere is no smoked meat smell!\t\nNo ""Take a number"" system.\t\nThey have small amount of wine and cheese which is cool but I noticed no one seemed to care about it.....so WHY bother???? Focus on the meat....thats obviously why people are there.\t\nCome here for meat you can't just go get at a grocery store, but dogs, steaks, and ground beef I'd go else ware or do it yourself. ...read more
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