History

Von Hanson’s Meat’s & Spirits is the “New Old Fashioned Meat Market.” Von Hanson’s Meats was established in 1984 in Apple Valley, Minnesota and grew to its current 20 stores in Minnesota where it reigns as the #1 meat market.

Many of Von Hanson’s Midwestern customers wintering in Arizona found themselves longing for high quality meat products and sausages that they had come to depend upon for family meals. Some even transported suitcases of Von Hanson’s high quality meats and sausage as checked luggage to their winter homes. In response to the high demand for butcher shop services in Arizona, Von Hanson’s Meats opened the Chandler location in June 2004.

Von Hanson’s Meats & Spirits is located at 2390 North Alma School Road between Elliot and Warner. Over the last six years, Von Hanson’s has become one of the East Valley’s favorite local treasures & butcher shops.

Von Hanson’s Meats & Spirits caters to the individual needs of a customer and can customize to a customer’s special requests by one of our on-site professional butchers.  Von Hanson’s meat packs such as the Cattleman’s Choice Pack, the Trim & Lean Pack, the Beef, Pork, and Chicken Pack, the Variety Pack, and the Any Day Grill Bundle provide substantial savings for our customers choosing to stock up their freezers.

Von Hanson’s offers not only quality meats but also over 70 varieties of sausages and brats which are made fresh in the Chandler store’s smokehouse. Von Hanson’s is the only meat market & butcher shop in Chandler that has a smokehouse and makes fresh brats, stick meat and sausages in the store. For example Von Hanson’s offers Polish Sausage, Andoulle, Kielbasa, Swedish Potato Sausage, mild and hot Pepperoni Stick Meats, and Country Maple Sausage made with real maple syrup. In addition, the store has Midwestern specialties like “squeaky” Cheese Curds – small nuggets of cheese that make a high pitched squeak when eaten, Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp, Wisconsin cheeses, Lefse – a thin sheet of Norwegian potato bread, Walleye, Pickled Herring, Porketta Pork Roasts, and Bea’s Potato Bake.  Von Hanson’s also features a large selection of domestic and imported beers and wine.

Von Hanson’s pork and chicken products are unique because the store tumbles its special seasoning directly into the chicken and pork producing Von Hanson’s infamous Butter Garlic Chicken Breasts, Tomato Basil Chicken Breasts, Butter Garlic Chicken Breasts, Tomato Basil Parmesan Pork Chops, and Butter Garlic Pork Chops.

Von Hanson’s on-site butchers processes wild game for hunters. Dog delights are also available. Many customers choose Pig Ears, Smoked Shank Bones, or Knuckle Bones for their special pet. Raw dog food for pets on a raw diet is available.

The East Valley now has its very own old fashioned butcher shop where customers select the cut, thickness and quantity of high quality meats.  Von Hanson’s is the old fashioned neighborhood market where butcher and customer work together to help the customer prepare the perfect family meal. Come visit Von Hanson’s and enjoy smoked sausage samplings on any Saturday and get freshly made brats for your barbeque.