Bought 5lbs of breakfast links from Westlinden that were incredibly delicious. I will most…read moredefinitely return to get some NY strips, Fillets, and (oh yeah) a tamahawk steak. I watched the butcher a steer right in front of me. The cuts look great and I hear they also sell proprietary jerky too which is super savory. This place is a local secret. I've been dying to visit a real, non pretentious butcher shop and this fit the bill. FYI: You can buy 1 steak or dozens. I give it 4 stars because I went in at 9amish looking for my favorite cut (skirt steak) and they did not have any available. Next time I will call a week in advance to ensure they hold on to some skirt for me before I get back into town.

I went in on a hog with my brother and it was processed thru Westlinden. I went in for a quarter…read morehog and got 60 lbs of subpar results. I have NEVER had bacon that had no bacon flavor. The strips looked beautiful, but have zero flavor. Just salty pork, it's like chewing a crunchy pork chop. The pork steaks have a good flavor (I attribute THAT to the farmer that raised the hog) but they were cut horribly with little to no trimming and alot of weird little bone pieces that have to be fished out . The breakfast links taste okay, but the casings are unpleasantly chewy. My ground pork looks like it's about 50% fat and the ham steaks taste very bland. So far every single thing I have tried has been really lacking in quality. These guys are nowhere near the quality of say, Edgewood locker, or Fairfax, or probably any other locker in the Eastern half of this state. Who would think any processor in IOWA would not be able to handle a pig. That's what we do here. They had zero remorse when confronted with the poor quality, just smugly stating that they have "lots of other customers ". So yeah, they have a pass poor attitude as well as skill.