Lopes Sausage

Great atmosphere… everyone is friendly and helpful… if you are looking to buy fresh meats and sausages this is the place… best portuguese sausages… place is very clean and organized…

Best Chourico and Linguica that I’ve had since I lived in south eastern Massachusetts! And every one that works there is so nice and helpful! BEST CHOURICO IN NJ!!!

I grew up in the Newark area and now that I’m not around here anymore I’m missing this place badly. I usually take 2 – 3, hour and a half trips here a year to stock up on chouriço and other sausages just because it’s the best. I can’t cook caldo verde with the linguiça they sell at shop rite… it’s just too bland. I NEED Lopes’s linguiça or I don’t make it at all!

The butcher of choice for my family for over 20 years. Even when we moved out of Newark, we still make the trek down when the meat freezer starts running low. Yes — we have a freezer just for meat. They also have really good presunto. If you’re a fan of cured meats (or just meat in general), I’d highly recommend you check this place out to satisfy your carnal desires.

My family has gone to Lopes for many years. It’s where we’ve always bought our portuguese sausages. So after recently moving into the neighborhood with my boyfriend, I decided to take him to Lopes to get his fresh perspective.
We visited Lopes on 05÷21÷14 later in the afternoon and were the only patrons in the shop. The shop was as spacious and clean as I remembered, great first impression! My boyfriend asked the butcher if he had any suggestions for a good grilling steak. Thinking perhaps he had a really good cut that he’d recommend or a good bargain on a specific cut. Unfortunately, the butcher didn’t answer him. I asked him in Portuguese if he suggests getting the Ribeye steaks for grilling, he answered «Sim», which means «yes» and then quickly asked us how many we wanted in Portuguese while pulling the meat to the counter. Obviously, he didn’t speak English which was a great disappointment for my boyfriend, who does not speak Portuguese. Nor did he have any suggestions or valuable input when asked in Portuguese. We felt rushed and confused. None of the produce was labeled so we didn’t even know what other options were available or what grade of beef we were looking at. We wound up getting two ribeye steaks. The butcher never asked us how thick we wanted them, just cut them and weighed them. We were both a bit in shock as to the service.
We grilled the steaks that same day, medium rare, and I can’t say the beef was very tender at all, it was tough and chewy. Not sure if this was just miscommunication or poor service but we’re currently looking into trying other butchers for our steaks.
My suggestion is that if you’re looking for Portuguese sausages, try Lopes! If you want to actually have a conversation with your butcher about a cut of beef and you don’t speak portuguese, try someplace else.

Just the best Portugesse sausage available in the USA.
Ernie Oliveira

I have been coming to Lopes for some time now. My only gripe with them is that they never carry lamb… something I’m trying to convince the owner to start carrying. However, because this is a Portuguese oriented establishment, pork, beef and chicken are king… and these guys know their pork, beef and chicken.
Stop in for sausages, and great cuts of meat… especially short ribs… their are the best.

Big and busy store. Three butchers behind the counter this Saturday. Went a little slower than I liked waiting — lots of conversation with their regular customers from the neighborhood. I noticed that they were trimming meats very well.
I was hoping to find some lamb sausage, but no. So I sampled some pork sausages. Italian style and Brazilian style. The texture on both were a little on the chunky side. Brazilian was a little bland. Italian had more fennel than I like. I noticed a lot of salted cuts, which must be an old world thing, when people did not have cold storage. Prices are cheap enough.
Good place to visit if you drive to the Ferry Street area for a meal.

This is the best place to buy Portuguese sausage. My parents and I have been going here for years!
Also, I noticed that they do not have a website, so I figured this would be the best place to list their hours:
Monday: 8am-3:30pm (no fresh meat is available, but sausage is!)
Tuesday: 8am-​6pm
Wednesday-​Saturday: 8am-​7pm
Sunday: CLOSED

Since my in-​laws love Portuguese Sausage (wife’s Grandma was from Portugal), I decided to make the dash out to Newark to buy them some Linguica and some other sausage (forgot the name) to surprise them while visiting from Texas. I arrived around 5pm on a Wed afternoon and they weren’t busy. The butcher hardly spoke any English but was really efficient and direct to the point. The cashier was helpful and even offered to ship to Texas if my in-​laws liked it (@$ 4.99 per lb + UPS pricing).
They loved it and I did too. It was fresh, tastety, and just plain delicious. The best Linguica i’ve had. They even took back the leftovers to Texas. Its a less than 15 min walk from the Newark PATH station (Newark Penn) and its a fairly safe neighborhood so when you visit Ironbound, stop here for a different take on sausage.

Simple and delicious. There was a bit of a language barrier with the man who was helping me, so now I just need to figure out what I just ate so I can buy it again!

Lets see how should I begin. Lets start with the sausages, they have maybe 9 – 10 kinds of home made Portuguese and Spanish style sausages available. They are some of the best made charcuterie in the area, plus at 4.95 I think a pound it is bargain to the poorly made vacuum sealed imitations you can find at other gourmet stores. They are also a full service butcher, service is slow but that is because they will prepare your cuts of meat any way you like. Chicken; only whole chicken for sale but they will prepare it any way you want, quartered, deboned, supremes all done with a smile. Plus if you are looking for things like tripe, pigs feet, whole pigs, they have it. The prices are higher then your local super market but then again you get what you pay for, plus the prices are way lower then Lobel’s or any other NYC butcher. I go here often, just be prepared to wait a few minutes but people are generally friendly and happy. Don’t be put off by the fact that everyone is speaking Portuguese because I have never had a problem getting exactly what I need with english only.

Located on Walnut St., just a few blocks off McCarter Highway (Rte. 21), Lopes is a family-​run sausage manufacturer specializing in smoked Portuguese sausages including chouriço, chorizo, linguiça, morcelas, morcilla, and salpicao. If you are not familiar with these products, you can sample them free in their retail butcher shop. They also make smoked bacon, ham hocks, etc.
This is a pretty big operation, in fact, the owner takes immense pride in the fact that he sells 50 or 60 lbs. of his products directly to the White House (yes, the one in Washington, DC) every month.
i had an opportunity to tour the whole facility, including the huge smoker rooms, where the products are cooked and cured entirely by hot smoke generated from apple wood sawdust.
The retail butcher shop is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, and stocks a full range of fresh beef, pork, and poultry products in addition to the sausages. The place is immaculately clean, and all the meat here is of very high quality. if you need to pick up a gutted, whole baby pig, this is the place. A great culinary resource.