Blue Ribbon Meat Market — Local services in Oak Park

This place was recommended to me by a grill-buddy friend three years ago. The rest is history! Ribs, brisket, steaks, chicken legs - and so much more. They even are one of the few butchers that does 'turducken.' I haven't tried that yet, but hear it's good - and it's good from Blue Ribbon. These guys - usually call and get Russ - are top notch. Customer service friendly and get this -- a butcher that will do and cut what you want, how you like it, to perfection. I can't say enough about this place. And come holiday time - watch out! Get your meat early. Not that they can't replenish pretty fast, but if you're a grill aficionado, get yo' meat early, for real. Do NOT walk here - RUN! They are the best meat, price, and deal in town. Old school butcher feel in there too - can't beat this experience, and it'll show after you grill that meat. Believe you me!! ...

It's so hard to shop locally when the customer services is so bad. Sign on the door says "6 people only in store. Take a number and wait outside". Go inside the store there are at least 15 people some with no mask and there are no numbers. So now what? You would expect to get guidance from the employees but no, they are chatting amongst each other and having a grand old time. Butcher says "next"- who is next? How do we know? Where are the numbers? He throws his hand and waves me off and says "we not using numbers" turns around and walks away. An employee at Pete's would never act so unprofessionally. So I took my $$ right down the street to meets where I got quality meat AND quality service for basically the same price. I usually dont write super long reviews but this place amazed and disappointed me with the way they are allowed to...

The meat is fresh, the prices are reasonable. HOWEVER, they do not enforce social distancing amongst the customers. I was there this morning. There is a sign posted on the window that cleary says there is a six person maximum in the store at a time. Today I counted nine people and and then seven people inside the store while I was there. I brought it to the attention of one of the workers, who acknowledged there were too many people in the store. He in turn notified a colleague, who looked then went right back to serving his customer.

COVID-19 is real and social distancing is necessary to help mitigate the spread. They certainly need to do a better job with enforcing the store maximum limits for the staff's, as well as...