First time I picked up my beef from Houser Meats, mouse droppings were in the boxes my meat was…read moreplaced in. Gave Houser's another chance less than a year later and my meat was OVER-PARTIALLY thawed. A forty minute drive home, in the back of my pick up and a 72 degree day. Partial thawing is expected however OVER-partially thawed, absolutely unacceptable. Woman from Housers came to my house to check the meat. Told me my meat was frozen as she was "squishing" away at the packaged hamburger. I had packaged hamburger laid out on my kitchen counter from that same morning (6 hours prior) that was more frozen than the hamburger I picked up from Housers. Will never do business with Houser Meats ever again. I'll keep to our usual meat lockers, which are a one hour drive and the other a one hour and fifteen minute drive. Never have had this issue with either of our usual choice of meat lockers, even during the dead HEAT of summer, let alone a 72 degree day and a 40 minute drive home. Unacceptable lack of accountability on Houser's behalf.

Food is good and soda is good And the setting is good and…read moreservice is good and I will recommend the place

Rabers has long been my favorite butcher shop in Peoria. Since they've opened their new location…read morethey've added on additional services like a full lunch counter and an event space. I go there as often as my waistline allows for lunch, and the food is excellent. As you can imagine, the meat is top notch. The prices are also so low you'll think you've gone back in time (I think I paid $4.50 for a big double cheeseburger the last time I was there). Raber's also hosted and catered our rehearsal dinner. They did a wonderful job. The lighting they have in the space is really good for setting a party mood, there is a full bar, and the food was fantastic (we had tenderloin steaks and chicken). We got so many compliments from our guests. One super nice touch was they wrote a nice message/sign for my wife and I on the chalkboard wall, and then a bunch of our guests added to it with more messages wishing us well, making jokes, etc. It was great. I'll be back for lunch as often as possible, and if I ever need to host a big party again, Raber's will definitely be the first place I talk to.

The best butcher shop around! The establishment is always clean & tidy. The staff is friendly and…read moreknowledgeable. And the meat? Always top notch! They also have great seasonings, cheeses, etc available. I've had everything from their deli meats to prime rib, as well as having whole hogs processed -- and I've never had a bad experience with them.

From the owner: Bacon, Beef, Brats, Cheese, Deli Meat, Lambread more

Been using Solo since 2019 every year. It is a professional family with several local employees run…read morebusiness that turn out great tasting meat. They take their time to explain your options at check in and professionally package the meat for better storage times. The taxidermy is also top notch and if you get a chance and lucky enough ask to go see their taxidermy work. Louie and Mike do awesome work at a great price. Local asset to the community.

Took my deer to Solo because it was the only place open on Sunday. Worst decision I ever made…read more Asked for tenderloin and backstraps whole and the rest to be made into roasts since I make my own sausage and jerky. When asked what to do with the rest I told them to grind it. What they gave me was 2 tenderloins and 2 backstraps whole, 2 roasts and about 40 lbs of ground meat. Any experienced butcher will get up to 8 roasts out of a deer and they gave me 2 small roasts. What a huge dissappointment. Never again Solo.

I went here today for some meats and cheeses for a ploughman's plate. They had a nice selection and…read moreit was reasonably priced. They were also very friendly and helpful. Ideally, I'd like even more variety than they have, but for Galesburg they are really fantastic.

Bought their jalapeño beef sticks at the Illinois State Fair and the price was right and they were…read moreso flavorful. Good product at fair price. Will buy more.

Disappointed does not even begin to describe how poor this exchange was with Jones. I had always…read moreheard good things about them and try to shop local and they have permanently lost a customer if this is how conduct their business. We ordered a half cow from the farmer who took the cow to Jones and then everything just went downhill. Jones did not pack part of the meat correctly/some of our meat was wrapped in plastic but not sealed. All the steaks and roasts were cut wrong, we got beef shanks instead of bones, some of the ground beef packs had holes in them and NONE of the ground beef had any labels whatsoever. We ordered 2lbs pack of ground beef and recived one pound packs. We were missing multiple cuts of meat that we specifically requested and only got 188 lbs of meat from a 393.5 lb hang weight. Obviously we weren't expecting to get the hang weight in meat, but to barely get 45% on top of all the other problems and paying a rather expensive processing fee, not at all what we were expecting. We called Jones multiple times and then had communication issues. They they didn't call us back when they said they would so we had to call them again. At first they said it was a new butcher then they back tracked and said one of the two bags of ground beef was 2lb packs instead of 1lb packs when both bags were just 1lb packs (when we ordered 2lbs packs to begin with). Our ticket even had 86 #1 next to hamburger, so that was just a lie to try and cover the mistakes they are refusing to correct or acknowledge. If you've made it this far, thank you. I hope you take your business elsewhere and have a better experience then my family did.

Family run business, lots of selection. Fast easy deer processing. Been eating sticks and jerkey…read morefor years from here. Super glad to have been close by this deer season. I'll be back!

Everyone was polite and helpful. Had most everything I wanted. Quality of the meat is excellent and…read moreprices are reasonable. I've been going there for several years and have been more than happy with their products and service .

Great lunch specials best tenderloin sandwich great cashier didn't catch her name also very nice…read moreand helpful tall well kept gentleman in meat dept

I was given a jar (as a gift) of their No Sugar Added Apricot Jam and it was absolutely…read morewonderful!!! I am not easily impressed but it was off the charts good!

I love homemade fruit preserves so when I saw a display of Hilty's products in Bankhead Chocolates…read morein Bowling Green, I had to have a few. I bought pint jars of Peach, Apricot and Cherry. After opening the peach and the apricot a review is in order. I am sorry, but I just can't say much good about these products. My experience with the first two is that they are much too jellied with excessive pectin, to the point of being rubbery and unspreadable. It appears the cherry will be the same way. To make matters worse, the fruit flavors I was expecting are just not there. The peach was mainly sweet, with little peach flavor. The apricot is pretty much the same and I don't know how someone can hide the distinct flavor of apricots. We shall see what the cherry has to offer but they apparently have substituted juice and pectin for fruit. You can get a lot better in any supermarket. In this day and age where the term artisan has been worn out, it is important for people not to conflate local, homemade, handmade, artisanal etc with well made and good. I grew up in rural Iowa with nothing but homemade and nothing but local. Local does not matter if it is not good. Unfortunately people will see this local, apparently homemade product and assume it is like Grandmother used to make. They will either be disappointed as I am or won't know the difference because they did not enjoy the true advantages of the real thing. If Hilty was my Grandmother we would have asked her to stop.