Wurst Kitchen

I’ve so far had the Nürnberger bratwurst and the «classic» bratwurst, and both are very good. I’m also impressed with the selection of condiments, with tons of varieties of mustard and even some curry ketchup (which I should have bought but didn’t, would be stellar on some of the sausages) and some jam/​preserves. Definitely snagged a jar of gooseberry jam. There’s even a nice big Haribo display, although the variety I was really lusting after were the lemon ginger gummies… which were packaged in a box on the floor, not on display. I didn’t make them open the box, but I’ll be back…
The Nürnberger bratwurst is pretty close to what I remember from Nürnberg. I finally had to look up the unique flavor from these — marjoram. It’s good to know I’ve got a source for these close by, because I really enjoyed them whilst in the homeland. And the classic bratwurst are just good brats, plain and simple. An easier source than driving all the way our to Reim’s Market, although I would need to taste side by side to tell you which is better.
Most of the staff seem polite — there was one young lady the day I was there that was… I dunno, annoyed to be there. Didn’t impact my enjoyment of the place really, just kind of unpleasant. There weren’t many customers at the time, so I don’t feel like I was taking too long or whatever, but I did order small quantities (wanting to eat fresh and not freeze the excess).
That aside, there’s a ton of stuff to try here, so I will certainly be back.

The Best!!! The Wurst Kitchen has been around for a long time for a reason!

There’s really not much I can say that hasn’t been already said. I grew up eating these on «special occasions» and even now my first bite always tastes like I’m trying them for the first time all over again. I hear a lot of people say «I don’t like brats» I can only submit that to be true if someone can say that, without laughing, after trying a Wurst Kitchen brat. One side note… I’ve discovered something new since the last time I was in. Something brilliant, something wonderful. Something that actual is what it claims to be… THE «A BOMB» brat. They have the spicy Kicker and the «4 x’s hotter» Cherry bomb, but have now introduced a truly hot brat, enter the A Bomb. Wonderfully delicious, perfectly assembled, and actually hot! If you claim to love the spice, you must try one.

Simply the best and no other place around. Great meats and selection. Anyone boo hoo about the pricing does not understand the word Value.

Awesome fresh and frozen sausages. The Texas hot-​links are crazy good, as are just about everything else they have. They sell the Milano rolls which suit the brats perfectly (softer than the turano french). I will note that some of the items end up being milder than I would anticipate (like something called «atomic» ends up being mild-​medium spiced). Definitely 4 – 5 stars for the quality, but at $ 7.29 a pound they lose a full star because of the price.

great service… huge selection… picked up some garlic and pepper sausage. and dry salami sticks
will deff go back for more.

Like every other review I love this place.
Went there late Saturday afternoon and while they were out of quite a bit I was able to get the Traditional Brat, Cheddar and Bacon, Jalapeño and Cheddar, Über Garlic and the Morcan Lamb Sausage.
All of them were fantastic quality. We werent crazy about the Über Garlic (it certainly lives up to its name) or the Bacon Cheddar but thats personal preference it had nothing to do with the quality.
The Morcal Lamb sausage was FANTASTIC!!! I’m Middle Eastern so I know Lamb. The flavor was excellent (and this was the frozen stuff I can only imagine how good the fresh would be). Its pricey at 10.00 a lb but as a treat its well worth the money.
I’m looking forward to going back and trying the Fresh and Maxwell St Polish

The Wurst Kitchen takes you back in time. Tucked in a residential neighborhood near downtown Aurora, the sausage shop sits on a corner in an old house. Inside, you will find upwards of 30 varieties of sausage made in house. They’re all terrific, but the sun-​dried tomato, green pepper and onion and cheese and jalapeño bratwurst are favorites. Worth the drive no matter where you live.

The Wurst Kitchen has outstanding sausage! Their varieties are incredible and perfect for all year. If you are looking for something special, call ahead. My personal favorite is the smoked brats. They are very busy on most weekends, especially the big holiday weekends in summer (Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day).

This place is very good. Some of the better brats that I have tried (and I have eaten many). Looking forward to trying more. I just moved to Aurora from Rockford for Grad School and this place was one of the first I visited.
Best option is to consume them almost immediately. The kitchen also operates a little road side stand that is perfect for the super quick bite to eat. Warning, this mofos are huge!

When I was in high school the owners son went to school with me. One day during an after school event he brought my friends and I some beef sticks that his father had sent for all of us. They were beyond amazing. Got up to the store on 2^nd and tried their original bratwurst and it was so mouthwatering. I will need to return someday in the near future…

I can’t believe it took me this long to come here. Fantastic old world sausage, served by friendly staff. One visit and suddenly I have a new favorite.

Their regular brats are outstanding. I had some Atomics, too, and they weren’t as spicy as I was expecting. Still excellent, tho. There’s 20 — 30 different flavors of brats, plus some other sausages available. Some are already frozen. They also have a small selection of mustards and other European foods. If you’re the kind that makes a 30 mile side trip to Gene & Jude’s (or Hot Doug’s) just for a hot dog, or you plan trips to Milwaukee around the Usinger’s plant hours, you should definitely make this part of your rounds.

Oh how I love encased meats and this place hand makes over 80 European styles of sausages. The store also has a small grocery section. They have been around since 1895 and after reading about them on Unilocal I had to give them a try. The store is located within a neighbor.
Boy oh boy these guys know how to make sausage. I bought three different varieties and all three were packed with flavor, well spiced, juicy and delicious. The sausages are huge and over fill your typical brat bun. The über garlic brat is über awesome! The taco brat tasted just like a taco on a bun and the hot & spicy kicker brat was excellent, next time I’ll try the atomic bomb brat. Sorry to all my friends in Milwaukee but these are the best sausages I’ve ever eaten.

Fantastic old school sausage emporium. The variety and quality go hand in hand.
Don’t get overwhelmed while viewing the sausages in the meat case. That happened to me the first few times I came here. You end up buying to much for a single visit and most eventually ends up in your freezer. The sausage is made fresh daily and tastes best cooked that way… fresh, never frozen.
Use restraint and purchase a few variety’s only, enough to consume in a day or two. Careful, plenty to choose from here. This gives you the perfect excuse to come back and do it all over again. Nothing like the smell of fresh meat in a vintage building.

2 words. Taco Bratwurst. Yes. You read that right. TACO BRATWURST.
Fantastic little gem hidden in Aurora!
I was searching on Unilocal trying to find a local meat market and happened across all the great reviews for Wurst Kitchen.
What an experience. I tried 3 different types of Brats… SO FAR. I plan on rectifying that and trying as many as possible. The taco brat is out of this world! Their original was very flavorful, the kicker wasn’t as spicy as I thought it would be so I need to go back and try the cherry bomb (4x hotter that the kicker).
Prices are very reasonable for the size of the wurst and I highly recommend a visit.

We have been here a few times. Lot of variety excellent quality. I absolutely love the lamb sausage with feta. It is the best. Knowledgable help behind the counter and great hours. Don’t pass it up it is in the middle of a residential area. Street parking.

First off, I’m so mad at myself for not knowing this place even existed until last week! WTH!!! As soon as I saw the Unilocal reviews, I knew that I had to check this place out, and pronto. The first grill-​friendly day arrived this past weekend, and we were so there!
Hubby and I both love homemade sausage, but haven’t found a place locally that impresses us. We’ve tried Caputo’s, we’ve tried various other meat markets, both in the burbs and in the City, we’ve tried A LOT of places. While the flavors are tasty, the problem for us is that the grind on the sausage is too coarse and you always end up biting down on «questionable» hunks of grossness (what I like to refer to as «teeth»). Oh hey honey, I just found another tooth in my sausage! Gah!
Wurst Kitchen is the answer to all our sausage prayers! They use a finer grind on their meat (HALLELUJAH!) and the variety of flavors is epic — the have about 70 flavors under their belt! The woman who was working when we stopped in on Sunday was super friendly and gave us the rundown on their sausages, including customer favorites. She warned us that we would never buy a Johnsonville sausage again which we were more than ok with, since we didn’t like them to begin with!
We opted to try one of each of the fresh sausages they had in the front counter that day (Cheddar Jalapeño, Jack Daniels, Original Bratwurst and a Kicker). We also grabbed a 4-​pack out of the freezer, the Moroccan Lamb, which turned out to be our favorite. The Cheddar Jalapeño was our second favorite. Nicely seasoned and the jalapeño gave the perfect amount of heat. The four flavors we picked from the fresh counter ranged from $ 5 – 6 a pound, which is VERY reasonable for the great quality you are getting. The lamb sausage was quite a bit more, over $ 10 a pound, but it was absolutely fantastic and full of flavor. Totally worth it! During dinner, we kept ooh-​ing and ahh-​ing over the quality and flavor and how excited we were to have discovered such a great place!
We cannot wait for our next trip so we can try out some more new flavors. Our plan is to try them all. Our grill is in for some heavy use this summer. Booyah!

I grew up in Berwyn, during the Sixties. There were still a plethora of old school Bohemian Butchers which, due to my Pa having gastric woes, we had to get our meat from instead of the supermarkets. (The nutritionists at the Hospital said that supermarket meat was inferior).
The old-​school Bohunk Butchers took ultimate care in their product, and that included the lunch meats and casing-​based treats like the weenies and unmentionables (like Jaternice and Jelita – if you don’t know, don’t ask)
My Pa’s malady was a benefit for our family, ‘cos we always had good meat! The Wurst Kitchen is German, of course, but I recognize the same ethic and care in their stuff. Now not EVERYTHING in their case is home-​made, but even the imports are chosen with care.
There are about a zillion kinds of brats, all good. Take your pick, you can’t go wrong. A few caveats-​The Andouille tastes like a bunch of yummy things, none of which are the familiar link of the Big Easy. It’s a good sausage, just not a traditional Andouille. Same for the Italian Sausage – but then again, you’re not going to find a traditional brat at any of the joints on Harlem Avenue in Elmwood Park!
If you’re a fan of the bar/​convenience store treat «Slim Jims» then scope out the W.K. «Wurststix» in a variety of flavors. This is the real thing, folks! A bit more expensive than the common link, but worth it. Perfect with a fine German bier. In fact, EVERYTHING in this place is begging to be washed down with lashings of Teutonic brew!
If you’ve got the stones, make sure to try the Head Cheese, Sulze and the different «Blütwursten» or Blood sausages. Your courage will be rewarded with some of the best sandwiches you’ll ever have.
The grocery items that are displayed are mostly German or Eastern European. Fabulous Mustards that compliment the meaty goodness, and pickled stuff that does the same job. Pick up a bottle of the Curry Ketchup and try it on your next burger – trust me on this one.
I’m throwing 4 stars, because as good as this place is, it’s got a ways to go before it reaches the my Gold Standard of Bobak’s, or Joe & Franks, plus the width of selection is not that great. In the same breath, it’s Aurora, and the neighborhood is more «Olé!» than «Jawohl!» You wouldn’t expect to find a Chorizo shop on North Lincoln avenue, would you? In any case, stop here and load up-​the smell of the place alone will make you think its time for lunch. It’s not cheap, either-​but you get what you pay for, and at this place, you really get your money’s worth!

This place is OLD! I mean really OLD. It has been in business at this site since 1895. Needless to say, I felt right at home. If they have been making sausage for 117 years, they MUST be doing something right.
The shop is very clean, very tidy and not over cluttered with merchandise. It isn’t a big shop, but they sure have a variety of sausage, especially brats.
We picked up an assortment of sausages and a few jars of mustard. I will update the review as we try various items. So far, the liver sausage was really tasty. We’ve been sampling it on crackers and I would get it again.
The shop is located in an area that is mostly residential, so there is not a lot of shopping near by, but if you are in Aurora, this is a place to check out if you like homemade sausage and really vintage places.