Best sausage
Patak Meat Products' retail space in Austell, which was your choice for best sausage in and around Atlanta. Staff photo.
YOUR PICKS
1. Patak Meat Products
You say, “Great taste. Great ingredients. Great selection. Great place to visit. Be aware they do not take plastic, cash and checks only. Do not mistake them for ONLY a sausage joint. Wonderful steaks and killer in-house smoked trout.”
2. The Spotted Trotter
3. DeKalb Farmers Market
4. Pine Street Market
5. Wienerz Butcher Shop & Deli
Check the board at Pine Street Market for a list of tasty sausage, bacon and other delicious offerings that are available. The Avondale Estates shop is our pick for best sausage in and around Atlanta. Photo: Renee Brock / Special
OUR PICKS
1. Pine Street Market
The AJC dining team’s specialist in Southern and Neighborhood Fare Jenny Turknett says, “Pine Street Market is my go-to place for sausage. Their products contain no filler, only locally sourced pork and seasonings. It’s the smooth texture and the intensely rich pork flavor of the sausage at Pine Street that secures my vote. While they offer an array of seasonal flavors, the roasted-poblano remains my favorite.”
2. (tie) The Spotted Trotter
2. (tie) Patak Meat Products
4. Star Provisions
5. DeKalb Farmer’s Market
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125 comments Add your comment
deb
September 20th, 2011
12:25 pm
Oak Grove Market makes their own sausages. I was looking for Italian sausage and theirs was awesome.
PY
September 20th, 2011
12:56 pm
What else is there? Patak is king for sure!!
Sausage
September 20th, 2011
1:08 pm
OK Patak friends, family and employees, we get it. AJC please do a better job identifying duplicate entries or give up on the “best of” voting.
Love the Boudin at Cajun Meat Company in Marietta.
Nom Nom Nom
September 20th, 2011
1:25 pm
Austell is not the City of Atlanta. Spotted Trotter.
T-Square
September 20th, 2011
1:37 pm
You’re right Nom Nom Nom, but it says in and around. So Patak still wins.
Jean
September 20th, 2011
1:46 pm
Spotted Trotter. Sausage as art.
Greg
September 20th, 2011
2:41 pm
Please stop mentioning Patak’s! They do enough business already to remain successful so I don’t need others increasing the line, though the line does move fast.
@Sausage: I am not a friend (though they are friendly), a family member or an employee. Just a fan and an Austell resident that eats really well.
southgate
September 20th, 2011
4:10 pm
Patak. still.
JP
September 20th, 2011
4:16 pm
Patak. No question.
Splendid
September 20th, 2011
4:20 pm
Aidell’s chicken and apple sausages at your nearest grocery store or Costco. Delicious…
Patak Employee
September 20th, 2011
4:22 pm
Patak. Drive 40 minutes for a sausage.
SB
September 20th, 2011
4:27 pm
Patak! I’m not an employee, family, or friend – used to work down the road from the store. Best smoked anything in the city! People drive MILES to get to this place to get their wonderful meats!
southern hope
September 20th, 2011
4:39 pm
The Spotted Trotter…I think they might have a store but their biggest crowds are at the Peachtree Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings.
Mike
September 20th, 2011
4:46 pm
Patak’s sausage is a regular item on the menu at the Ritz-Carlton at Lake Oconee. I’ve also had it in Augusta. It’s the best.
So many people voting are for the same place because there probably aren’t that many sausage companies in Atlanta. You go looking for the best “small plates” and Kessler will talk your ear off with options.
KJG
September 20th, 2011
4:47 pm
Delia’s is great. Definitely my favorite spot.
RK
September 20th, 2011
4:47 pm
HD1! In a few days, anyway…but easily Patak’s. I also saw SoHo in Vinings using Patak’s this weekend.
yuzeyurbrane
September 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
I am sorry so many people know of Patak’s. The line is already long enough. I might add that besides all types of sausages, they also have excellent cold cuts like hams, corned beef, pastrami and excellent quality pork.
Renee
September 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
The Meat Man in Lawrenceville is really good…
fes
September 20th, 2011
4:51 pm
Heywoods rules. (http://www.heywoodsmeat.com) Try the jerky while you’re there…you won’t be disappointed.
I didn’t realize that Weinerz was open to the public again. I’ll have to get back over to Atlanta Rd to hit them up. Their Atlanta Beer brats are awesome.
ryan v
September 20th, 2011
4:51 pm
Dalia’s Chicken Sausage Stand – On Moreland near East Atlanta Village
East Cobb Mom
September 20th, 2011
5:09 pm
Heywood’s Provisions! http://www.heywoodsmeat.com/
Amy Bodoh
September 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
Patak Meats
Michell
September 20th, 2011
5:41 pm
Pine Street Market in Avondale Estates
dook
September 20th, 2011
5:42 pm
‘cue in milton/alpharetta/cumming-ish mmmmm. they have good cobbler too.
Baltisraul
September 20th, 2011
5:42 pm
Alf…….It looks like your opinion is about to receive the “worst post” of the year award!!! Congrats little fella!!1
Ken
September 20th, 2011
5:44 pm
Wiernerz on Atlanta Road in Marietta, IF you can get there when they’re open. They keep pretty much European hours there. You have to be have a Hausfrau’s hours to catch them open. Definitely not for the 9-5 set.
Donkey200
September 20th, 2011
5:45 pm
Pine Street Market tnen Spotted Trotter.
Truth
September 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
The best place to get sausages is the Auburn Market. The hot saugage links, OMG!! Live in Las Vegas now and wish I could swing by and snatch a few pounds for the smoker….
KEAD
September 20th, 2011
6:13 pm
Heirloom Market BBQ has delicious sausages for sale.
Mike
September 20th, 2011
6:15 pm
Patak fans, seriously, you should take a look at the quality of meat they use. You may change your mind after.
Sean
September 20th, 2011
6:33 pm
Patak… there is no other.
MUFC
September 20th, 2011
6:44 pm
Firkin & Crown at the Avenues Forsyth in Cumming (exit 13 on ga400)!
Van
September 20th, 2011
6:44 pm
@ Mike: “Patak fans, seriously, you should take a look at the quality of meat they use. You may change your mind after.”
And you are basing this statement on? You work there and have first-hand knowledge of the cuts of meat they use?
I made a Patak run earlier this week and all of the meats, including the cut steaks, looked top rate. So, unless their is some sort of airbrushing afoot I would say their meat is excellent.
Oh, and Patak’s is the best for sausages.
Scotland_for_ever
September 20th, 2011
6:45 pm
Firkin and Crown British Pub at the Forsyth Avenues at GA141
Brazen Unicorn
September 20th, 2011
6:48 pm
Pine Street Market
Danny G
September 20th, 2011
6:50 pm
I want to try Pataks, but they are not open on Saturday and their website is from the 90’s. Can’t buy on it. Oh well.
Claudia
September 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
Stupid question — Every sausage lover knows it’s Patak’s.
howard
September 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
Patek in Austell….outstanding…
Martin
September 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
Not in Atl, but down I-75 below Macon in Cordele- Stripling’s- has the best sausage in GA.
ted
September 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
I’m also a big fan of Patak. We had an Oktoberfest gathering over the weekend, so I made the trek to pick up fresh brats, Polish sausage, and weiss wurst. The best part is when our friends don’t eat the weiss wurst, so there’s more for me. Of course, I had to get smoked liverwurst, landjaeger, Hungarian salami, and a few smoked sausages, too. The taste says enough for me about the quality, and all that cost me ~$50.
Much as I’m psyched to try Spotted Trotter and Pine Street Mkt, these guys have been doing it right since the 80’s.
Danny G- you can pick up some of their stuff (smoked liverwurst!) at YDFM on Sat/Sun. I wouldn’t want to wait in the first-Sat-of-the-month line at Patak anyway.
ken
September 20th, 2011
7:51 pm
Pine Street Market in Avondale Estates, hands down. Locally sourced pork, good variety, best I have ever eaten. Try the Roasted Poblano links – heaven.
Z
September 20th, 2011
7:54 pm
OH NO, the secret is out..PATAK the most awesome meat market ever. Been going for years and always top quality. My relatives who live in the Midwest and raised hogs and butchered their own say, Patak bacon and meats are the best they ever tasted. And yes, I take a few pounds with, when I travel up that away. Smoked Pork chops, Oh My, delicious as are their sausages. I hope the lines won’t get any longer they might have to expand again..and make the parking lot bigger..
spreak
September 20th, 2011
7:55 pm
Another vote for Pine Street Market! The Kielbasa (I think it is pecan smoked) is wicked. Made on premise with USGA inspector. And I can walk there to get my sausage fix! Naked sausage walking!
amanda
September 20th, 2011
7:56 pm
Pine Street Market, Avondale Estates
spreak
September 20th, 2011
7:57 pm
Also, I forgot to mention the Chorizo. Stuff your peppers with Pine Street Market Chorizo!
Jeff
September 20th, 2011
8:14 pm
Heywood’s Provisions in Marietta. The best that I have had in Atlanta. And I used to make homemade italian sausage — but not this good!
Native Georgian
September 20th, 2011
8:17 pm
The previous comments communicate that Atlanta is full of folks without Georgia roots and that’s no slam on their choice of Polish saussage, but the best county saussage in Georgia can be found at Stripling’s in the Cordele area – several locations & on the web. I’ve been a customer for almost 3 decades and there’s none better.
renee
September 20th, 2011
8:21 pm
The best has to be in Avondale Estates – it’s Pine Street Market.
Hominid X
September 20th, 2011
8:24 pm
Spotted Trotter is opening Oct 17 in Kirkwood according to their Facebook page.
Peavine Creek
September 21st, 2011
6:21 am
Pine Street Market or those made by Muhammad at Buford Highway Farmers’ Market.