Sausage Party in Los Angeles?

January 30, 2016 9:55 AM

So, I'm back from my Portland trip and back in Los Angeles. I'm going to miss the overcast skies, the smallness of the place, the good public transit, the biking, and all the great friends I have there, but I'm seriously going to miss the crazy variety of sausages. Is there anywhere in LA I can get something like this huge variety of sausages? And if not, what is wrong with LA? 8 million people could eat a whole lot of sausages.
posted by bswinburn to Food & Drink (11 answers total)

Just to clarify, you're looking to cook the sausages yourself, not for a restaurant?
posted by karbonokapi at 10:15 AM on January 30, 2016

Maybe Huntington Meats?
posted by Huck500 at 10:28 AM on January 30, 2016

Response by poster: Yep. Looking to cook the sausages myself.
posted by bswinburn at 10:28 AM on January 30, 2016

European Deluxe Sausage Kitchen (also has South African sausages)

Jeff's Gourmet Kosher Sausage Factory

Huntington Meats at the Farmer's Market

The market at Alpine Village

Any decent German deli should offer at least a few classics, and ditto decent Italian delis. I haven't been to Van Nuys German Deli in a while, but I got some good weisswurst and bratwurst there.
posted by Lyn Never at 10:29 AM on January 30, 2016

Wurstkuche
posted by Room 641-A at 10:55 AM on January 30, 2016 [5 favorites]

European Gourmet Sausage on San Fernando in Glendale is a German butcher who makes the best cold cuts. Look for the fine German liver sausage.

Schreiner's Deli and Market in Montrose sells the best Bratwursts in town. Also check out Berolina bakery next to them for buns and other baked goodness.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 1:11 PM on January 30, 2016

EGS also has Nuremberger style brats which nobody else seems to carry.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 1:12 PM on January 30, 2016

Belcampo and A Cut Above make sausage. Not the hugest selection but they may have something interesting that you won't easily find elsewhere.
posted by Room 641-A at 3:18 PM on January 30, 2016

+1 for Wurstkuche, I live in the PNW and that place would fit right in here.
posted by pazazygeek at 4:34 PM on January 30, 2016

+1 for European Deluxe although its the biltong that brings me out of the way to go there.
posted by minedev at 10:11 PM on January 31, 2016

Response by poster: I'm sorry to inform metafilter that Huntington Meat no longer has many of the sausages listed on their webpage. The butcher their advised me he hadn't heard of most of stranger sausages listed there and he had worked there years.
posted by bswinburn at 12:25 AM on February 12, 2016