Rudolph’s Market & Sausage Factory

My family’s made purchases from Rudolph’s for more than 15 years. They continue to have exceptional products, knowledgeable and very friendly staff. Most recently we needed to meat for a last minute cookout for unexpected guests. We knew we wanted Rudolph’s, headed over to Deep Elum around 2:50pm only to find that they close at 3pm. Well the gentlemen welcomed us in, helped us with everything we needed AND THEN SOME. They were patient and provided great service as always. As many businesses change with «trends» it’s great to find reliable business with consistent service and quality products still around after all these years

Hello my friend, these guys rock!
As noted, you pay a premium here, but if you’ve got a special occasion and want the best chance of finding a top quality piece of meat, or if you’re looking for a special bespoke grind or custom cut or something your local grocery may not carry, this is where you need to go. Pro tip — one of the few places where you can consistently find outside skirt steak.

This was an unexpected find on what turned out to be a Foodie and Brew day in Dallas for us. Bring the cooler, because you are going to want to stock up when you get here. I was so excited to see the selection here and we purchased quite a few different items.
The meat counter has amazing cuts of meat. Kind of funny that all the customers there on a Saturday at noon were guys, buying gorgeous steaks destined for the backyard BBQ later that day.
We went the other route, selecting a variety of frozen items and a few fresh items bust as pork breakfast sausage, chorizo, Poblano Cheddar sausages and much more. They have ground lamb, sliced stead for cheese steaks and of course Carne Asada.
We made our breakfast sausage the next morning and it was delicious and was very lean. There was hardly any grease in the pan, a sign that they are not trying to add fat to be filler. I believe that the butchers here are masterful, and after being in the same location for 150 years you would expect it. Look at the cutting tables when you visit, they started our flat but and now concave because they scrape them every night for cleaning.
The staff was great and made the whole experience a very positive experience.

They have great meat, what I don’t like is they don’t have any posted prices for that meat. If you go to this place, bring a lot of money and be ready to get sucker punched, they make up the prices as they go. $ 15 for 1 frozen lamb shank, I think not, I love the hot dogs and sausages but I don’t think I will be going back to this place.

This place has the best steaks you can find, we drive 70 miles to get them when we can afford it. They are a lil expensive but when you dry age beef you have to charge more, and if you don’t know why then you need to really read up on dry aged beef… you lose weight in the beef from storing it due to several reasons. If you want cheap meat go to wal mart and eat the cardboard flavored beef. They don’t have prices displayed but if you can’t ask the butcher the price then you don’t need it. There is a reason this place has been around so long…

I was not impressed with this shop whatsoever. You see meat (tri-​tip with cap) starting to turn green. They want you to buy the entire slab of beef shortrib then trim from there. Hardly had any meat on the ones shown. The price is high. $ 9.99 a pound for these beef short ribs compare to $ 7 – 8. Mmmeh, going somewhere else.

The butcher that works there is very pushy… and before you know it you’ve spent too much because there’s no prices on anything
Bad Business. And the heavy sell has to stop!

Welcome home. My Farher recently passed, and for over 50 years was a customer. Found myself in Downtown Dallas and stopped for thief famous Frank’s. Still the very best EVER!

Sausages (Polish, Kielbasa) stuffed on site are terrific and only $ 5.99 a pound. Great selection of prime beef, some of it dry aged.
The brick chili is fully cooked, sold frozen and only needs a cup of water and a sauce pan. It’s plenty spicy — the type I would top a hot dog with.
Plenty of offal in the freezer windows too — brains, feet, etc.
Happy 120^th birthday Rudolph’s, you’re doing it right.

Great old school meat market. I’ve tried the oso buco, Italian sausage, ground lamb, hamhocks, fleet mignon, t bone and the beef jerky. All great! Don’t forget your ice chest. Primo

I really wish I could give them 5 stars, since that’s what drove me there after reading what everyone else rated. The service was good, however the value was not there in the quality of meat… for the price.
The hotdogs are really good, however they were expensive. I paid $ 7.5 for 6 dogs and I will go back for them if I’m in the neighborhood. That’s why they got an extra star. Sabrett’s (hotdogs in natural casings) are sold cheaper at other places.
I purchased beef bones (3 small), hotdogs (6), Bologna (¼ lb), hog casings (1 pack), and small chili… I paid $ 43… That’s a lot for «Poor Man’s» food… The hog casings had whiskers and needed to be thrown away and the bones rendered very little marrow.
If you have a lot of money and don’t really care about quality, then you might be pleased. Again, the hotdogs are great and if you do go, please try.

Oooooohhhh I’m excited about this discovery! I needed some ground pork sausage for a New Year’s dish and wanted to make it special, so I went on a Unilocal hunt for a meat market and found Rudolph’s in Deep Ellum. Meat markets can be pretty intimidating to try for the first time, but gather up your courage, walk on in, and jump in line! The staff members are super helpful.
The pork sausage was just perfect for my dish, and I’m looking forward to getting more to try simply as a breakfast sausage patty! Yum!
We love Deep Ellum and will use any excuse we can to get there. Now we have another one — BACON! You’ll never buy grocery store bacon again after trying Rudolph’s fresh sliced bacon. Best we’ve ever had!
As others have mentioned, there are no labels or prices on display so we limited our first venture to only the necessities to see how hard the price tag hit us. Not TOO bad! About $ 15 for a pound of ground pork sausage and 12 slices of bacon… it’s doable for fresh, high quality meat. Other items I want to try — smoked sausage, hot dogs, and summer sausage! Several people in front of us were getting some really good looking steaks as well.
Next time we have company, I know where I’m going to get our breakfast meats! Great find!

Nice place, great atmosphere, maybe that is why they have been around so long. Didn’t mind not knowing the price, after all are you buying the price, or are you buying the product? Anyhow, fantastic cuts of meat. I had the filet, a nice thick rib-​eye, and two flat-​bone sirloins dry aged a minimum of three and a half weeks. Everyone was happy. Can’t wait to come back for more. This time I want my hot dogs!

I went here three time before doing a review, I wanted to make sure it was 5 star worthy, and let me tell you it is!
You want to look like a ROCK STAR on the grill or in the kitchen, get your meat here! First trip did the Filets and they were a HUGE hit, everyone at the table agreed the best steak that they ever had! And these folks are Bobs and Nick regulars!
Second trip, strips, same outcome!
Third trip Ribeye bone in, WOW they were OUTSTANDING!
Also picked up incredible hot dogs for kids, sausage rocks and they fresh bacon was STELLAR!
Service is outstanding, brought my girls with me on the third trip and they gave them the royal treatment letting them watch the cuts and handing out tasters!
Im 45 minutes away and I will defiantly make the drive!

Super cool old school meat market! They are kinda pricey, but it’s legit fresh meat and quality!
The staff was super nice and gave me a discount!
I will definitely be coming back since it’s the only meat market in Dallas! It’s been here for almost 120 years!

I had been looking forward to buying fresh meat from this meat market for a long time. We had passed this place several times before during our deep Ellum adventures.
So we go in and the guy behind the counter greets us which is nice and we start looking around. No prices are listed anywhere. None of the packages in the freezer are marked or signed. None of the meat in the cold case is signed. No prices anywhere. WTH? Do they want you to ask for prices on every single thing you’re interested in?
We left without buying anything. Not even the spice rubs and sauces were priced. Sorry, I don’t have time to play guessing games.

I think I rolled out all the verbiage I could muster today on other reviews but since I saw this pop up, I’d like to give a good Unilocal out to Rudolphs.
Homemade sausage (s), aged steaks and other odds/​ends. It’s hard to pinpoint one thing here as a reason to return as there are multiples. We grabbed a good amount of variety and what has me doing this review is…
In-​house made Braunschweiger! Its really good too! I will get it every time I go. We had the wieners (awesome), hot links (very tasty but not really spicy — kind of disappointed), polish (spot on and excellent), italian sausage (when I cooked it up for a home made pizza it had just enough fat to cook, no excess — extremely lean and delicious!), summer sausage (also made in house and damn near perfect).
The banter with the butcher is fun as well, these guys are a riot and add to the charm of this landmark market. It’s worth a 30 min drive as well. While we didn’t try the aged steaks, I’m pretty tempted next time we go to get a couple to grill up as they age them in-​house too.
One other suggestion for people going here the first time, there are imported items as well as items they make themselves. While I was a little annoying, I have other places I can get imported items, the whole reason for us to make the trip was for those in-​house items. Just ask they’ll tell you, and let you sample as well.

5 stars on the customer service. I got two types of sausages for griiling: spicy hot link and also hot sausage. they tasted just alike and neither of them were spicy. i ended up finding better sausage at Kroger in Irving

Stepping in here is like a step back in time. First of all, it smells deliciously meaty and rustic in here. I came in to get some locally made beef jerky. It is surprising to me the dearth of locally made beef jerky in Dallas, but this is the jackpot. The beef jerky is very thick and flavorful, and has a great chew without being the texture of tree bark. It is expensive though. A nice ½ lb portion is $ 15, but the quality is great, and they make it all themselves. That is something to brag about if you need a «Dallas made» goodie to take out of town.
I will also be back for their high quality and amazing selection of smoked meats and bolongne!

I just recently went here for my first but certainly not last visit and I loved the place. The bone-​in rib-​eye steak I bought was the best steak I’ve ever had in my life and that includes having paid $ 75 at Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse for the less superior product. I covered the steak in Worcestershire POWDER which was perfect. I also bought ham hocks and cooked them with black beans all night in slow cooker and threw in fresh cilantro and chives at the very end. Next I twice cooked the pork belly I bought from here in the oven with sweet spices purchased here as well and again the quality was exceptional. I still have duck breast, sausages, bologna and several other proteins left to try.
The ONLY con about the place is the price can be steep but YOU WILL NOT REGRET COMING HERE.