Park Packing

Good meats and poultry at good prices. Don’t go if you’re squeamish about blood or heads or raw meats cause it’s everywhere! Very clean and well lit. They are pretty friendly if you find someone who speaks English. Make sure you wear a thick coat cause it’s a big refrigerator that you’re walking into. Parking is plentiful and check out the weekly specials they will be hard to beat.

HOW AWESOME IS THIS PLACE! All your meat freshly cut pretty much right in front of you like an old school butcher, only on a much larger scale! Bring a coat, I mean this place is huge and this place is THE REAL DEAL for buying meat. I make an hour drive out here once month and just stock up on everything! You cannot beat the prices. Honestly. It’s like when you go to Costco and buy everything you need (and don’t need haha) because it just makes sense to have everything in bulk for the prices. Ribs, T-​bones, souvlakia, pig, chicken, goat, lamb, fresh made sausages, steaks, and everything in between. It’s family owned and the whole family is there all the time. It’s nice to see that such a huge place still has old school family traditional working values. Not for the weak stomachs, it smells like a meat market.

Today was a pleasant surprises. The road Ashland leading to 41^st was well paved with both the tunnel and the overpass (bridge) removed, compared to just a year ago. Compared with previous setting, park packing has extended the lot, improved and better placed the positioning of the various meat and bone placements (see new pics for details). The place was as usual, very cold, averaging around 30sF in temperature. The meat is as fresh as it can be. The free service of reducing the bigger pieces to smaller bits was swift and available in a brief wait time. The cashier was quick with the assistant’s person skillfully packed up an empty box worth of our purchases. There was no issue from checkin to checkout. I picked up a regular priced of $ 2.99 Italian hot links coming in at 5 pounds total. For this one example and many others similar to it, I find park packing prices unbeatable even compared that of the nearby discount grocer such as Aldi’s and the like. I appreciate this experience and look forward to many more visits in the future. :)

I had a t bone steak that was excellent as well as the Italian sausage and hot links. The staff is inconsistent with pleasant customer service sometimes it’s good then sometimes it’s good luck. Overall I’d.go back again just get a better staff $mile or at least fake it!

Love this place the meat is always fresh the owners are wonderful accommodating people !! Thank you for being a TRUE MEAT MARKET !!!

This place is on the rotation! A bit out of the way, but worth the trip! Mostly pork-​centric but have need, chicken and even some seafood. If you don’t find what your are looking for ask the guys on the bandsaws in back. Also, for who animals, go across the parking lot for pigs, goats and lamb. Bring a coat! Seriously it’s about 35 degrees inside.

Gave this place a shot to pick up some spareribs for a BBQ. $ 2.99/lb is not bad, but I was able to pick up spareribs from Wal-​Mart for $ 1.99/lb and it was vacuum-​packed. Not only was the price cheaper at Wal-​Mart, but when I did a taste test after smoking both over the weekend, it wasn’t even close. The ribs I bought from Park Packing were just too fatty making it somewhat soggy compared to the other ribs from Wal-​Mart which came out with a nice bark and that beautiful smoke ring around the outside.
I saw that boston butts were $ 2.49/lb and picnic shoulders were $ 1.99/lb so I might try that out for some smoked pulled pork. Then again, I think I’ll avoid the smell, the whole place being a fridge, and just go to Mariano’s or some other grocery store.
If you’re looking for fresh meat, there’s a good selection of items here, but I just wasn’t impressed with the cut, quality, and prices.

I go here once a week to buy meat for the week… or longer. We don’t live close, but it is kind of on the way home from work. The chicken breast prices are unbeatable. Our local grocery chain had a «meat blowout sale» two weeks ago. Chix breasts for $ 1.99 a lb. At Park Packing i’ve never paid more than $ 1.69. One week they were $ 1.19! The pork is very fresh, always great.
If you get squeamish around blood, or don’t do well around that kind of stuff this place isn’t for you.
You walk into a refrigerator, and there are piles of meat everywhere. Grab your own gloves and shopping bags and do it yourself.
Still wondering… if I buy an entire Pork Chop loin will you custom cut it? Your stock frozen ones are very thin, i’ve been looking for 1.5″ thick chops. I’ll ask next time i’m in

I truly wanted to like this place especially since it came so highly recommended by a friend!
I don’t see what the hype is all about to be honest! When you get there be prepared to be very cold even with a jacket or coat on because you are walking into a big fridge of unpackaged meat that you get to pick through yourself!
For me that wasn’t a problem I already knew how the place was set up and that was really a plus and one of the reasons I traveled so far to check out this place out!
I was shocked because the prices weren’t as low as I heard except for the pork ribs (that would be the only reason I would go back) but the chicken, fish and pork was comparable to a meat market, grocery store or Walmart!
The quality of the meat left something to be desired so I would rather do what I do now, watch out for sales and get a better cut of meat! It’s not worth the headache of scaverging through huge bins of meat just to be unsatified with the outcome!

The place for your souvlaki meat. I’m so glad I found this place.

Bought t-​bones, ground chuck, baby back ribs and brisket. The ribs were tough, the burger was not ground chuck. It had so much fat in it the grill erupted in flame. I am worried about the brisket. I guess «you get what you pay for».

Great product. Great prices. Go early and often. You won’t be disappointed. Its like a visit back in time to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle without the bad stuff. A knowledgeable and amazing staff will take care off all your pork needs.

Wow, this place is absolutely amazing. It’s not for the squeamish– they’ve got it ALL here. The other reviews will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect here– lamb heads, tripe, sheets of pig skin, and carcasses hanging for your perusal. I stopped by for some veal bones for stock and to browse at their inventory. They really do have some phenomenal selections, but surprisingly enough their selection of steaks is somewhat limited. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough, but it seemed like all of the ribeye selections were really thin. I bought a pack of three, but I really couldn’t find any with decent thickness. I’ll come back by and take another look, but I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t find a thick cut of steak.
Ah well.

Really good place to shop for meat products. I’ve been going to this place for years.
Their website is now complete. Check it out.

Well, I just got back from Park Packing… I now have three hams, 2 pounds of bacon, 4 pounds of spare ribs and a new favorite shopping site. It is FULL of meat, all kinds. (Being Asian, those pig parts were really tempting) The place has small aisles, a lot of action, lots of folks and the nicest staff. They boxed up our stuff and brought it to the car, and everyone was really nice, if also extremely effecient! I met a man who drives 30 miles one way just to get their hams, which look wonderful and were very inexpensive.
This is not fancy shopping, and looks NOTHING like Whole Foods, but it is inexpensive, and has more selection than anywhere I have been. If you need a lot of meat, especially pork, goat and chicken (they do have beef as well) this is your store. The retail is off a large wholesale operation, and there are trucks, dollies and all kinds of serious activity. But the product is wonderful, and I can’t wait to try that bacon! Odd location, but good parking and traffic in that area is easy.