Local Pig

Just hit up the Local Pig for the first time in Father’s Day. Got some jalapeño and miso honey bacon, smoked and brined chops, and some braunschweiger. All of them were fantastic. My husband said the chops were the best he’s ever had.

Got their breakfast sausage links and also a few of the beer bratwurst. They were amazing! Please go out of your way to visit Local Pig!
They have all kinds of nice cuts of meat, bacon with a variety of flavors, some of the sausage can come loose (as in not in sausage links) if you need it for something else, other kinds of good quality products like cheeses and I think pickled items.
I haven’t gotten anything from Pigwich, their sandwich shop attached to their store, but after trying some of their sausage, I will definitely be getting a sandwich sometime soon!

I took their class titled «Whole Beast — Nose to Tail: Butchering, Charcuterie & Sausage» last Sunday. Excellent class, professionally delivered, educational and fun! Jimmy and Sam are passionate about their work and are just good people to spend a day with. They served up pulled pork burgers for lunch (I think there was ground bacon in there) – absolutely delicious! I took home an array of fresh cuts and charcuterie, all from locally raised pig. The butcher shop has a great personality to it, and the staff are happy and on the ball. Any time I’m in the area I plan to stop in for a look and a taste!

This meat lovers gem is tucked away in the northeast bottoms of Kansas City near Knuckleheads. The pigwich rail car serves up five sandwiches with specials changing each day. I entertained the Tuesday special of the smoked brisket sandwich with homemade kettle potato chips. The flavor was amazing and surprisingly savoy. Added cheddar cheese and dill pickles capped this delight off nicely. The outdoor covered picnic tables add a nice casual touch. The butcher shop is attached with fresh meats for sale, including sausages and steaks of every type. The butcher was cutting up a fresh side of a hog. I understand they offer classes for those who want to learn the art of butchering meat. It was my first visit but won’t be my last!

I like this place: the people running it seem cool, the fourteen-​day aged burgers seem like bullshit, but they’re not. I got 3 lbs. of beef bone for stock for $ 3. I got beef casings for sausage for next to nothing. Their pork broth literally looks like pork jello — the most collagen I’ve ever seen. The chalkboard wall isn’t smooth, so bring your thick glasses, because you can’t read the prices of anything. The coffee sausage is great I’m told, as I made some for my fiancé, and she thought they were great. Overall, this place seems legit. I’ll swing by a few more times, and swipe some items. By the way, I noticed that your prominently displayed health inspection sign is expired as of December, so there’s that. I am pretty positive that if I called and asked to be witness to a snuff film of a living cow and pig, the local pig could put a price on that, and make it happen in three to six days. This is my kind of Charcuterie! Drop in and buy something; albeit, they’re pretty popular already, it’s a business, so they need people to buy things. They have a lot of things. Go buy things. I would give them five stars, but I need to ascertain if they actually know cool Ethan, or if they’re just hipster-​posin’. Oh, and their little food truck-​style concession stand is legit. Eat something too, but don’t get shived down there, because it’s a shifty area.

I’m so glad we looked up «best KC barbecue» in a web search prior to rolling through KC on a trip to Austin, Texas. This place is a quick stop off exit 33 on I-​35, taking you through a semi run down area to what one can only say is a Mecca of Pig. The Pigwich is an absolute delicacy, smoked to perfection, perfectly garnished. The surprise of our stop was the Philly Steak sandwich. What paradise did the cow responsible for this steak live in? Absolutely delicious. Seriously, stop here if you are rolling through. If you live in KC, you’re missing out if this isn’t a regular stop.

Great selection of meats and sausages… especially the sausages. MANY types of sausages, bratwurst, and hot dogs. The chorizo rojo sausage and the burnt ends sausage were GREAT. The young woman who waited on us was very knowledgeable, patient, and friendly, and gladly answered our questions and offered advice on selection. Would DEFINITELY go back even though we live an hour north of there.

We love their selection of meat. Anytime we cook steaks, this is our go to store for the best in quality! My husband loves all the different sausages provided, and their bacon is tasty as well. We have had their homemade pickles, which were good, next to try on the list will be their breakfast potpies.

This is a pleasure to have a butcher shop of this kind in Kansas City. Everything from their homemade sausages to their locally procured ribs and beef are all absolutely delicious. while the meat may not be graded prime, it is the same as prime because the local farmers do not need to pay the USDA for the Prime quality stamp. The meat does not need to be labeled prime for it to taste prime, or in my opinion even better than prime.
Today, I am picking up a couple pork spareribs and a beef brisket to smoke on New Year’s Day. There is no other butcher shop in Kansas City where I would rather get mind me in the Local Pig.
I have not been here too many times, but every time I have been here the food that I have cooked has exceeded my expectations; and both the service and the butchers are extremely professional and courteous. They all know meat extremely well; they also know the positives of purchasing locally sourced and humanely treated animal products.
This will certainly not be the last time I come to the Local Pig!

Best butcher shop I’ve ever been to. We treated ourselves to one of their dry aged bone in rib eyes and I’m not sure I’ve eaten a better steak before. We appreciate their local resourcing and I wish there were more places like local pig out there.

Was skeptical naturally about their bacon, as I buy local pasture raised bacon from another place that is over the top delicious. Nevertheless we bought a pound of black pepper bacon and some capicola. We were given a sample of the capicola to try and it was absolutely delightful. We got home and cooked the bacon to go with our home grown tomatoes on a blt. I must say this is the best bacon I have ever eaten, and I used to work on a hog farm. We will be regulars. Thank you. Oh, and the service excellent as well. Nice doing business with people that are passionate about what they do.

Ok, so we live about 20 miles from The Local Pig and have been in 3 times this month already. I love that they have grass fed and humanely raised meats, local free range eggs, local raw honey and a bunch of other goodies. All kinds of steaks, different flavored sausages, lamb, chicken. You have to try them out. The pork tenderloin is superb. I have so many good things to say about all of the items we’ve bought but this would be a huge review if I did that. The service is top notch as well. You have to really look for this place but it’s worth it. Good thing we don’t live closer. ;)

I loved the bourbon jalapeño bacon and black pepper bacon… good quality bacon and delicious! The brats were ok… I bought 3 different flavors… grilled them and the flavor was good… but they didn’t have me saying WOW

So good… I have only been here a couple of times, but everything we have gotten is fantastic. You will make lots of friends if you start serving their burnt ends sausages or gorgonzola burgers at your next cookout. They have a few of the accompaniments you would expect from a gourmet meat market too– Farm to Market pretzel buns, happy chicken eggs (as opposed to sad chicken eggs), seasonings, pickles, and more.
You are definitely paying for the quality (and expertise of the guys behind the counter), so don’t expect and $.99/​pound anything here.
If I could have a complaint, it’s that you never quite know which route driving over here is going to be complicated by trains blocking the tracks. If you don’t know the neighborhood, plug the address in to your GPS or you will never find your way in and out. (Same goes for finding Pigwich or Knuckleheads, since they’re all on the same block) But… if you ever have fancy meat cravings, it’s *so* worth finding.

They’ve got the best sausages and bacon I have ever tried and many other wonderful, local cuts of meat. I still like this place very much and am pleased that they sell it at their Westport location which is much closer to home.
However, I am going to be one of the rarities here and say I consider this place more at 4 stars because a few months ago my wife got her first real job and was excited to be able to spend some of her new income on a weekly 5 pound butcher box. The problem was that each time we showed up to pick up her box they didn’t have one for her even though she had confirmed the order over email both times. Sure, they pulled out a different one to give her but I was sad for her that this happened twice in a row. After that she seemed to lose interest in subscribing to the box… come on guys!
As much as I love the meat here, I have also had issues with inordinate amounts of fat on some things. The bacon — although delicious — can be this way. Steaks — particularly ribeyes — should have plenty of fat on them however for the price I’m not sure you are getting enough lean meat for it to be a good value.
Look — I like the Local Pig a lot… I really do. I just don’t think they are as infallible as I once did.

My wife got us tickets for the sausage making class and we had a blast! It’s a really fun and creative date idea, plus you get like 12 sausages apiece to take home. The class teachers we entertaining and fun to be with. I would definitely recommend taking the class!

Love, love, love this place. I can’t say that enough! We flew to KC just for this class (from Cali). We are so glad we took the Whole Hog Butchering class. The instructors, Evan and Sam are incredibly knowledgable and helpful. We learned how to butcher a mammal, to make charcuterie and sausage. We got to take home lots of goodies too; Chops, roast, sausage, bacon, summer sausage, pâté and more (thanks for the extras!!!) So Amazing!!! We learned lots. Thank you Local Pig. We will be back!!!

Great local butcher shop with lots of variety of meats, cuts and specialty items. On my visit I picked up some burnt end brats ($ 2/​ea, amazingly good!), sage and ginger breakfast sausage ($ 7/​lb, makes great breakfast burritos!) and a 10oz 14-​day aged KC strip steak ($ 1.25/oz, cooked to perfection by yours truly on the BGE). The Local Pig is a little on the spendy side, so for this average Joe it is a place I will treat myself to every once in a while.

Ever since we had a CMYE event at the Local Pig where we got to chop, roll, and squeeze our own sausages, I’ve been completely in love with this place. Looking for a chorizo, bacon, whiskey infused sausage? I’m sure they have it. You get to watch the butchers at work preparing all the delicious meats. Everything here is fresh and local. If this alone doesn’t draw you in, they also have a SCRUMPTIOUS food truck right outside incase you just can’t wait till you get home to taste the meats. (see Pigwich review).
Local Pig is the best butcher in Kansas City and anyone and everyone in the city should go there.

I’ll keep this one short and sweet… quite literally.
Matt E took me to this adorable butcher shop to pick up some local honey when I was in town visiting last week. Yes, I admit, it’s kind of ironic that I bought honey in honor of the Jewish New Year at a place called «Local Pig,» but honey is honey, and I needed some for my honeys at home!
Not only does The Local Pig carry a variety of local honeys to choose from, (I went with the traditional one), but as the name implies, they also sell all kinds of organic and local steaks, roasts, chops, sausages, burgers, charcuterie, and more. I was tempted to buy a ton more than just honey, as everything in the shop looked amazing, but I wasn’t prepared to travel with any additional purchases.
If I lived locally, I imagine I’d be a frequent customer of Local Pig… but unless they open another store in Phoenix, I’ll have to live vicariously through all of you that can go as often as you like… and until my next visit to KC, I’ll just be home enjoying my honey!