DePasquale’s Sausage

Used to go here. About two years ago I went and they gave me old frozen sausage. I have not been back since.

DePasquale’s market is a tiny storefront on main street Nonantum (part of Newton). It’s an old Italian neighborhood with a small but vibrant center of pubs and shops. If you didn’t know about it, you would probably pass right by unless you are very curious about small Italian markets. It’s a well-​kept secret unless you know superb Italian sausage and meats, in which case you know it’s one of the best Italian sausage places you will ever find anywhere.
Many authentic Italian markets exist around the country, but what this one lacks in size, it makes up in consistently fantastic sausages. Who cares if the counter service isn’t always especially friendly? This place is a treasure, only 2 minutes off the MA Turnpike.

These are the best! Love the garlic and cheese !!! A must visit place especially if you are having a cook out or making a sauce !

Best damn sausages in town that’s all you need to know. I highly recommend the Chinese sausages they are fantastic you can never have just one.

Best sausages ever. Hot Italian, Sweet Italian, whatever you get it is awesome. Maria is making them right there. As someone noted (and cut down on the stars, really too bad), she’s a little gruff. But who cares? She makes the world’s best sausage. You don’t have to hang out with her. But my guess is if you did, you would eat well! Go there for the sausages. Places like this are getting few and far between. Support your local sausages!

Wow, if you like sausage, then you should go to this place. If you love sausage, then you have to go here.
This place is exactly what you want from a family-​run business: small storefront but much larger place where they do all the actual prep and cooking. Seeing all those fresh sausages piling up in the back area was a major slice of hog heaven.
I bought the spicy sausage and it was fantastic. The heat was right, the taste amazing, and the consistency spot-​on. Yes, sausages do have consistency differences. Crappier sausages are chunky, while great sausages like at this place have a smoother consistency. My guess is that the reason for this is that DePasquale’s uses better cuts (as opposed to scraps) to make their sausages, so they dictate what goes into their sausages.
Here’s something else I’ve discovered, if you cook it in a skillet (sear 1 minute on each side at medium-​high heat, then cover and cook for 7 minutes at low heat), after you sear the first side and turn it, make a couple of small slices in the skin on the seared side and then cover the pan with a lid. If the sausage is great quality, you will just see meat in the sliced area. But if the meat’s quality is low, you’re going to see a lot of crap foam up at the sliced areas.
Here’s a major hint: if you go here, don’t do what I did. I just bought the spicy sausage. You should go and buy 2 or more of each type of sausage they have (e.g. spicy, Chinese, garlic & cheese). I wish that I had bought the other types as well when I went. But I’ll have to save that for next time.

Best sausage ever. Worth the trip from anywhere. Bring this to a BBQ and be a hero

fresh sausages and lots more! marinated chicken, steak tips and pork.
regular, spicy and garlic and cheese sausages are my family’s favorite. Prices arent bad at all. Family own and love buying local.
The place is small, so it’s hard to form a line. Lots of specialty items to look at, italian cookies, chocolate and drinks!

Would get 5 stars if the help was a little friendlier and not so condescending, i guess it could have been the owner who waited on me, either way, she was miserable, unlike most italians I have met who are usually very sociable. That aside the Chinese and the garlic and cheese sausage were fantastic, as were the steak tips, small store with a huge kitchen and fridge behind the counter.
Parking was easy, I guess it depends what time of day you get there, get there early, but not too early as they open when they feel like it and not necessarily when they advertise (so I’ve heard)
Didn’t get chance to check out the rest of the store as the servers daughter came in and the server plus the other customer in the store proceeded to pontificate about her daughter in general and I had obviously become invisible.

I know most talk about the sausages, but we love the steak tips. They are perfection. Our children call them «the best ever» and it’s always a special occasion for which we plan ahead, as it’s not dropping in from next door for us. I’ve cooked them in the heat of the 4^th of July and cold of Christmas Day! One hint: call the day before and order them, especially for their marinated tips (which is a key reason to go there!). The store appreciates it — so you don’t clean out their front refrigerator case.

I come all the way from Medway for the chinese sausages, the best I have ever had!
The girls always yell at me cause i didn’t call ahead cause I get 3 – 5 boxes for me and friends, sorry girls, usually a last miniute road trip!

juicy greasy link
sweet spicy garlic and cheese
longing for the fest
I was first introduced to this phallic meat from the gods at a friends BBQ in Waltham. Like every girl, I love all tubed and grilled meats sausage and brawts and hotdogs… so naturally I took the first one that was ready: Spicy Italian.
Perfection with a serious kick.
Then there was the sweet sausage. Yeah, I can handle another sausage.
If perfection could get more perfect it was the sweet after the spicy. Wait there’s ANOTHER flavor of sausage!!!
Garlic and cheese sausage. If only I hadn’t had two sausages and a pitcher of sangria before I got this – I could have had about 10.
I went the day after the bbq to get some sausage for myself, and especially try the chinese that is so popular on Unilocal.It is $ 1/​sausage. Awesome. We got 3 of each type that was available (tragically, they were out of garlic and cheese, GO EARLY to get the good stuff, they run out!). We got sweet, spicy, tomato basil, and chinese.
Grilled’em up and was AGAIN blown away with their goodness. The tomato basil: meh, but the chinese: MUAH! I’m pretty sure I could eat the garlic and cheese and chinese everyday.

Best place ever! Owner is a little unenthusiastic, probably because she knows how great her product is and she doesn’t need to be customer friendly LOL! If you have never tried the breakfast sausage this is an absolute MUST!!! I agree that the Italian sausages are better than the Chinese sausage, but they are not bad, because everything they make is delicious! I just prefer the Italian sausage to the Chinese — and the breakfast sausage to any pork product I’ve ever eaten — and yes that includes bacon!

Great Italian sausages but I’m not sure what this Chinese sausage is all about. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever encountered — bright red, chubby, and marinated in what I think is sweet and sour sauce. I guess it’s the Italian interpretation of a Chinese sausage? I don’t know, I personally don’t think it tastes that good. I’d rather have the garlic and cheese.

My fiancée and I just moved to the Lake at the start of this month. When we signed the papers to our new apartment our landlord told us what a great neighborhood we moved into. Naturally, the first thing I did was Unilocal!out the area. DePasquale’s was the first place to stand out. I read the reviews and knew that I had to get these sausages for an upcoming birthday /​graduation BBQ.
I have to admit I was a little intimidated walking into DePasquale’s. I don’t know why but I was kind of picturing the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I walked into this tiny store filled with everything Italian. A wall of pasta, jars of stuffed peppers, freezer FILLED with meats, and a fridge filled with different Italian sodas. However, what stood out the most to me was the pizzelle makers (picture a waffle maker only flat) and at least 4 different brands of anise extracts. BOOM right then and there I was taken back to my childhood when my mother would make pizzelles on special occasions.
I’m rambling, sorry. I walked up the counter and the mother /​daughter duo were working like a well oiled machine and took customer’s orders so quickly that I almost didn’t have time to take it all in. Based on Unilocal!reviews and my love for spicy foods I ordered a pound each of Chinese, hot, and garlic and cheese.
Fast forward to last night and the sausages, mainly the Chinese ones, were the most sought after food off the grill. I really can’t say enough good things about my experience at DePasquale’s. No matter where you’re from, DePasquale’s is worth the trip and a must have for any BBQ.

A great shop. Unfortunately places like this are increasingly hard to find.
The garlic and cheese is the best that I’ve had.
Definitely worthwhile to check out if you are passing through — and they do have a good selection of other Italian products

We love DePasquale’s Sausages! The garlic and cheese ones are the best! No 2 batches that they make are the same, the best is when the cheese is ooozing out of them, yummy!!! They are also very nice and helpful when you go in there.

so one day there were two sausages frying away in a pan.
one sausage turns to the other and says «wow, it’s really hot in here.»
the other sausage says «oh my god! it’s a talking sausage!»
this joke is a perennial favorite of mine to tell when i’m drunk.
well, get yourself some beer and grab a sausage from DePasquale’s. when it talks to you it will say «i’m delicious»
and it wouldn’t be lying to you. coming from a person who goes weeks without eating meat that’s saying a lot.
DePasquale’s is in the Lake, an Italian section of Newton, and these sausages are the real deal. If you bring these to a party your friends will think you’re more attractive and witty. They’re so good they may even get you some action!

Finally went back for the Chinese sausages. They are bright red. They look alien. They are the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my life.
My god.
Cook em the way they say at DPs — 5 minutes in the microwave on one side, turn and pokem (sounds like a dating ritual), 5 minutes on the other side, and then 10 minutes on the grill.
Perfection.
I can’t wait to go back for more. Willy Wonka: The Waltham Project is going to have Jimmie turning RED.

There are lots of imported products (pasta, olive oil, amaretto cookies) crammed into this little space, but the main attraction is the meat since it is a great spot for freshly made sausage. The prices are awesome ($ 3.50/lb) especially since they are making the sausages right behind the counter. The pound of sweet sausage we got cooked up nicely with no grease in the pan, but the links were FULL of flavor. I would like to give the hot and extra hot sausages a try as well as their stuffed cherry peppers. They also get bonus points for selling Girl Scout cookies for a local troop.