The Hungarian Butcher store features time honored Hungarian recipes and traditions, blending old and new world recipes and techniques, to create beautiful crafted sausages and meats. Chef Varga works with local farmers, suppliers, and sustainable farms from Ohio like Sakura Wagyu Farms, Woodruff Farms, PureBred Lamb, Six Buckets Farm and others. Photo courtesy of Tommy Feisel. 

Chef Dan has a unique ability to infuse flavors, cuisines, and creativity to create inspired and unexpected dishes. He has honed his craft in such kitchens as Oscar’s and Tucci’s of Dublin, The Refectory, The Explorer’s Club, Double Comfort, and Ray Ray’s Hog Pit.

The Hungarian Butcher, provides a modern twist on classic recipes taught to Chef Varga by his grandmother, Eva, a first-generation Hungarian immigrant. You’ll see a rotating selection of smoked and cured meats like Szalonna, all kinds of Kolbasz, Sonka, Lonza, Hurka, and all kinds of paprika-spiked sausages, salamis, bacon, headcheese, pates, terrines, rillettes, and more. If you’re really lucky, on the day you visit, Chef Dan will have Anya’s Cabbage Rolls in the case. Be sure to pick them up, they’ll go fast.