Besides my family-in-law's cooking this was the highlight of our Missouri culinary experience…read more After a 3 hour flight it was a three hour drive to our destination. About 2 hours in we see signs on highway 54 for "Barnyard Smokehouse". Drooling over the signs and starving my wife start calculating by the time we arrive at our destination it'll be too late to eat with family so we follow the signs. There's no offramp, just hang an instant right off the highway onto the dirt road at the barnyard. Used to clearly marked offramps I missed it and had to take a detour. Luckily in Missouri you can make u-turns on the freeway :-D The entire property is the "Central Missouri Meat & Sausage". There's a deli, market, and restaurant called "Barnyard Smokehouse". Beef and pork is locally raised and butchered on site. Walking in the door we're greeted by warm and friendly people telling us to sit wherever. The restaurant is inside the market/deli to the right. Lots of tables. To start we order some fried pickles. They're sliced thin and battered in cornmeal and served with ranch dressing which is one of the food groups in Missouri. I wish the pickles used were more sour but they tasted really good. For dinner I had their smoked brisket with Texas toast, BBQ beans and Mac-n-Cheese. My wife had the same thing but with "bacon, cheddar, and ranch potato salad" and mac-n-cheese. When it came out I was skeptical since the tri-tip came out in paper thin slices but I shouldn't have judged a pile of meat by its looks since it was fantastic. Beef was saturated with smoky goodness and due to the thin cuts it was super tender. On the table was several made in house BBQ sauces. I really enjoyed their spicy one and my wife liked the sweet one. Side dishes were great too. Due to our odd flight times we only had a tiny sandwich on the airplane so we both devoured everything on our plates. While waiting for our food I walked over to the dessert case and perused. Another standard item in Missouri are refrigerated whip creamed based "pies". We ordered the oreo cookie one. It was gut busting rich. Thick slab of dense vanilla custard topped with crushed oreos and whipped cream. Super rich and decadent. We both felt like we were going to burst after our meals but it was a great start to our vacation. When walking around the market after we saw these giant 6 to 7 foot cured meat sticks made from pork. Since we were going to a potluck in a few days we got 4 of them and at the party cut them up into bite sized pieces. These pork sticks are AMAZING. The BBQ flavor was the favorite followed by the jalapeno. They have them in more reasonable sized pieces too that are vacuum sealed. I bought some for myself and some co-workers. If you find yourself driving on Highway 54 through Fulton, MO do yourself a favor and follow the signs to this great place!!

Wonderful drink and diverse beer options, not a super big menu but I do enjoy the food! Has a…read moremini-store inside the restaurant so you can browse meats and cheeses after you dine! Lovely experience, service was wonderful as well!

Ok, so there's no reason to drive 100 miles east from Kansas City just to buy meat when we have…read moreMcGonigle's, Local Pig, etc. But if you're headed back from Columbia, grab a cooler and take a little detour up Highway 5 to Jennings in New Franklin. Here you'll find a long case full of lean, meaty slabs of goodness at prices that are well below the Kansas City butchers mentioned above. They'll cut just about anything to order, and the meatiest, tenderest slab of baby backs I've ever had came from here, at a Kansas City supermarket price. They also smoke their own sausages, hams, turkeys, and bacon. I'm not a huge bacon fan, but I can just keep eating theirs. I served one of their hams at a Christmas party, and people couldn't stop talking about it (or eating it-it was gone in minutes, it seemed). Their beef jerky snacks are hickory-smoked crack. Rounding out the inventory are barbeque sauces, rubs, and all manner of condiments, many made locally. I've never asked, but given their heavily agricultural surroundings, I would bet most of the meat is locally raised. Every now and then I get all sanctimonious and decide maybe I should stop eating meat. Then I find some of their stuff in my freezer, and, well, it's just not gonna happen.

Ah, we love Jennings Premium Meats in New Franklin. We purchase their "meat packs" a couple times…read moreper yer to fill up the deep freezer. We have purchased the Beef Pack, Variety Pack, and Pork Pack and all of their meat is stupendous! It butchered locally and everything is wrapped in butcher paper to preserve freshness. They will also customize your order. For instance, we request 1 lb packs of ground beef, 1.5 lb portions of roast, and we ask them to split our brisket in half. They also have an amazing selection in store! So, when you go to pick up your order, you can grab another 15 items like I do. They even have cheese curds (I am probably the only one excited by that, but still). They also have some locally famous chicken wings. I haven't had the privilege to try them because they only sell them on Saturdays. If you are looking for good quality meat, locally sourced, this is the place for you!

Stopped in to get a bologna sandwich at 2:45 pm. And they couldn't sell me the sandwich that was…read morelisted in the board. In a smokehouse full of bologna to sell they were unable to make a sandwich because "they were out". I won't come this far again.

Service was quick, brisket sandwich was great. A good spot for a quick bite. Cucumber and onion…read moresalad is sweet if that's to your liking.

Weber Meat Market was always good. I would have a BBQ outside my apartment in Columbia, but went to…read moreJC for school and work. On those special nights when we wanted to treat ourselves at the BBQ, I would get my meat from here. The steaks always fresh, the sausage always good and the bacon was cut perfectly. They always treated me good. I was a long haired little hippie and they never held that against me. I usually spend a good $50 or so a week here for a couple years strait.

Roger has been processing my meat for me for some years now. He is very professional, clean and I…read moredon't have to worry that I'm not getting the meat that I brought in. He is a great guy. Other meats that I have bought from him have always been excellent as well. This is the BEST little secret in Jefferson City. If you looking for top quality meat at a reasonable price, this is the place you need to go.

Excellent friendly service. they went out of their way to assist me . Will use them againread more

I love this place. Fresh cut and frozen meats. I think you can get just about anything here.read more

I enjoyed meeting Michelle today on my search thru Sturgeon for local steaks. I purchased a prime…read moreribeye and it was pretty good. I would definitely do the drive to get meats from this market. Sorry no pics.... Next time!

Great family, great people. Tons of excellent options in…read moreterms of steaks, chicken, pork, etc. various cuts, options; both fresh and frozen. Same with pellets, rubs, and sauces. An excellent example of a well-run small business that deserves your patronage.

Don't be fooled by the sign out front tempting you in offering free samples. That's how they got…read moreme to stop by, but there weren't any available. When I asked about them the girl at the counter got all snippy with me asking if that's all I stopped in for. Look, I swing by the Osceola Cheese Store all the time because they have free samples, and I generally walk out of there having spent seventy dollars on cheese that I tried free samples of. So right off the bat I was irritated. It's a big shop, with lots of ham for sale, but wow, they are super pricey. I know they will say it's because they do all their own smoking, but there's a similar style place in Arizona where I live called The Pork Shop that has way more reasonable prices. Not that I'm suggesting you drive to AZ for a ham. I'm just saying their prices are a bit on the high side. I might stop in here again, but probably not.

I don't get to the store nearly as often as I would like to, but they offer shipping which has come…read morein handy many times. The quality of meat is great, and we love trying the variety of sausages they carry. I have ordered many times for gift giving -- shipping directly to the recipient or having it shipped to my home to put it in a gift basket.

Had really high hopes for this place after a long day on the road. The menu looked inventive and…read moreamazing. Things started out well, the BF had a tasty Manhattan and I had a mocktail that was subtle and delicious, and not overpriced as mocktails often are. But alas. The house salads that we ordered were overdressed in a vinaigrette so acidic we couldn't finish them. And there wasn't much to them. Other than greens and fried shallots and pickled red onions, there was a tiny dusting of some finely grated cheese. And who needs two kinds of onions and nothing else on the salad? Then we each had a bowl of the matzo ball soup, which was ridiculous. Three matzo balls sitting in a quarter-inch of broth that was so unbelievably salty that we couldn't eat that either. We ended up asking for hot water to dilute the broth to a level of saltiness that was edible. The chicken was okay and the matzo balls were okay. A little gummy. But the broth was just awful. It all made me wonder if the chef had lost their sense of taste due to Covid or something. Seriously. I've had that happen to me a couple of times and all I could taste was really basic stuff like sour and salt. And our waitress was totally uninterested in trying to make our experience better. She wasn't rude, she was just indifferent to the fact that we'd been served two courses that we absolutely couldn't eat. Didn't offer us anything to compensate or even express any sympathy about it. We got out of there as fast as we could and made ourselves feel better with an Andy's frozen custard.

Clean & nice people. I had sides, Mac & Cheese. Nothing to write home about. See I have this…read moreassumption of someone has it on their menu It should be with trying. Made in house. ....no. but let me tell you they made up for it with the jalapeño grits. OMG I could have eaten a pint of that. I also had a lovely drink. It has amazing spices and with the 2 or 3 wines they added rum. My spouse had a fried bologna sandwhich which she said was good.