AJ's Lena Maid Meats

One of the best small town local butcher shop you can find and go to. Quality meat at reasonable price point and service. I have never been disappointed and doubt i will ever be.

We were on a Saturday road trip and pulled into the town of Lena on a whim. From a distance Lena Maid Meats looked like it was worth a visit and we were right. This tiny little shop has a huge selection of high quality fresh meat, prepared meats, smoked meats and more. The shop is a local, old-fashioned family-owned butcher shop. We left with sixty bucks of filet mignon, stuffed chicken breasts, spare ribs and baby back ribs, and some slab bacon. You should definitely pop in if you are in the area. Next time I'm bringing my big cooler.

I was fortunate enough to be hired to paint the big mural on the side of the building. Verne and Marcia are the nicest people and they sure know what they're doing here. Upon my departure, I was compensated with some of their product and WOW! Their stuff is good. I thought "old fashioned" flavor was just a slogan but it tastes so much better than store bought, especially the ground beef. I've made so many tasty dishes. Recently, I gave my boyfriends mom a few lbs of the ground beef. Knowing how much my boyfriend loves his mommas meatloaf, she brought over some and said it was the best meat loaf she had ever made and wanted to know how to get more beef! Whenever I'm near Lena, I'm definitely stopping in to re-stock. I have a lot of Holiday cooking to do!

Terrible customer service. Makes you wonder if they want business. You want a get an animal processed? Plan a year in advance and don't even think about it during deer season. If your business is that robust, why not add capacity?? We'll go where our business has value.

Located on the edge of downtown Lena near the railroad tracks, this place has a great selection of quality meats. They butcher their own meats whether it's beef, pork, chicken, or other game meats. The prices are quite good and there's some smoked pre-cooked sausages, bacon ready to cook, along with frozen steaks, so there's a variety for your cooking needs. On Saturday, they had the National Honor Society of the local high school serve up some brats and burgers, but the best was the lightly marinated pork chop sandwich. Great quality from a family-run business!

We're from Chicago and used to good quality meat products with many options. We camp in the area and shop here for our meats. The quality is awesome and the selection is very good. So good that our friends loaded up on meats to go home with. We're doing the same tomorrow as we head out.

Great meat and decent prices. I just dig that if they don't have your cut they have zero issue with walking in the back and cutting it fresh for ya. Owners a good folk

If you live outside the county, do not have them process beef from local farmers. They mislabel, short change your order. We had used a local farmer and ordered half steer for several years. In recent years, the beef had an off taste probably from poor refrigeration during processing. Cuts labelled as T-Bone were really chuck steaks!!! My daughter in law was shortchanged on her order. Go anywhere else.