Reviews of Zinks Meats & Fine Wines (Butcher Shop)

Bob Mullins

Great wine, great food, kind of a wine bar like Cheers.

Robin Barton

The new location and store is much improved over the original location. Zinks is a good meat market and deli, with ample seating for lunches.

Nicky Fernbaugh

The best!! Always quality!

D Wales

Zinks is amazing. Great wine, fantastic food and Bourbons to taste.

JK 101

We went to Zinks in Franklin Ohio for years and loved every experience and all the meats we purchased were high quality. That being said my mom bought us a gift card to the "new" Zinks location in centerville for Christmas not knowing the 2 brothers split their business. Of course we expected the same quality as we experienced in Franklin. Too bad that was NOT the case. First we used the gift card 1 day before it expired and if we waited one more day the $50 my mom spent would have been totally wasted and invalid. #1 Wrong. Second the meat "counter" was exceptionally small, as in 5 or 6' long total. Almost nothing to choose from. #2 Wrong. When my wife asked for ribeyes, our previous favorite from Zinks in Franklin, they had nothing except an uncut piece of meat in the back he was reluctant to cut into...but did so only after getting a phone call after our order asking for more of the same. #3 Wrong Next, we spent over $70 on 4 ribeyes and 2 polish sausages...$16 a pound for the ribeyes...that's double Krogers so it should have been premium right? NOT EVEN CLOSE. Just got done eating our Zinks ribeyes...filled with gristle and extremely tough. #4 Wrong For comparison we got some steaks on sale at ALDIs no less a few weeks ago...and ALDIs steaks were 4 times better at 4 times less the cost...no exaggeration. ALDIs steaks were perfectly marbled with fat...NOT gristle...and were extremely tender...To be Honest...Zinks Ribeyes were about the worst we've eaten in the last 5 years. This review is to educate consumers...if they offered us free steaks we would turn them down. Instead of having a full belly after a 1 pound steak I just finished 4 extra large cookies for dessert...half my steak is in the trash...all gristle. Go to the REAL Zinks Meat Market in Franklin...stay away from Zinks in Centerville!

Karen Evans

Great wine, great service, really fun Karaoke on Friday night!

Kathy S.

I recently bought some ham salad and roast beef for sandwiches. The ham salad had an okay flavor but was the consistency of paste. The roast beef was just 'okay'. The store appeared to be geared more towards the wine tasting direction and less of a meat market, since there was very little space dedicated to any meats.

Chris Ingram

If you are looking for a hidden gem for an AMAZING burger, then do yourself a favor and go here. SOOO good.

Keith Reinig

Try the Hunter burger. It was superb! This will become a regular place.

Matt Scholp

Classy! Great wine. Incredible food. REALLY, really good live music!

Barbara o'reilly

Excellent pulled pork sandwich!

Rebecca Dailey

There's a lot of good food here. In addition to deli meats and sides, they offer a full service restaurant for dine-in or carry-out. They also offer desserts, fresh pies and cakes as well as cookies and brownies. I had the Big Az burger (yes, that is what it's called). Made to order, 3/4 lbs. It's enormous and delicious. The staff are very friendly and helpful, they will offer recommendations if you're not sure about anything. Looking forward to returning and getting one of those desserts! If you're looking for live entertainment, they have music and winewine-tasting events weekly.

Kathy Tappan

If you like really loud music and don't want to hear or talk with your friends, then this is the place!

Robert Long

GREAT!

claudia rocklin

Great meats, food and wine!

Jordan Warner

This place is filthy. Service is terrible. I watched one of the workers drop a part of someone's food on the floor and they picked it back up and served it to the person. Awful communication between employees, and when I wanted to speak with a manager there wasn't one around that could actually help me with my situation. Wine tasting nights there are really disorganized as well. Bad experice both times I went and I won't go back again.

TL R

Best burgers and reubens anywhere. Unsurpassed customer care. Brought home a cherry pie and some Dave's Chili for a taste test. Looking forward to that! Update: I am now addicted to Dave's Chili. Went back for 2 more "Larges," one for the fridge and one in the freezer. Determined not to run out!

Don Kiesel

Good food just takes a while to get it cause they are busy plus good for takes time

k alexander

Unusual beer choice and good prices

kristina curtis

The place was very dirty. Food on the floor as well as every table. There was only one other couple in the place when we were there. No one even bothered to wipe of a place for anyone to eat. So i did it myself. Food was so so. Not sure if I will be back. Not impressed

Mike Nolan

Fabulous entertainment, great wine, honest prices.

Ronald Hartwell

Great people. Wonderful product.

Dave Wittmann

Took my mom there for dinner. The live music was a nice surprise. Very reasonable prices

Vince Pachiano

Not kidding, I just had the best hamburger ever. Zinks is a meat market, wine shop and short order grill.

Chris Fidelibus

Great food and service!

Nick Duke

Good food. Don't go if you are on a time crunch for lunch. Every time I have gone it has taken about 30 minutes for my order to come out and it was just me with a basic sandwich and fries.

Libby Ballengee

Delicious!

TheOneTheOnly W

Great food, great prices, great service. Try something different most everytime and have yet to be disappointed, been going for about a year now.

Pia Verba

This is a very clean place, plus their food is delicious and farm fresh. I have traveled all over the world. Came back to see my cousin Susie, and ate at this place. OMG. I will always come back here. Amazingly delicious. Nice people, good service. Delicious. If you can get there, do. It's worth the trip, even from far away. Amazing, those Zinks. You will not be disappointed. How could you be? Even the Amish eat there!

Stephanie Dietz-van Giessen

The food is amazing!!!

liz wing

We absolutely love Zink’s. We have food allergies in the family, and they always get our orders right. The burgers and steaks are affordably priced, and cooked to perfection. Food is made to order, so arriving when it’s busy means you might wait a bit, but I promise it’s worth. The workers are hard working, down to earth, and knowlegable about the food and alcohol served. The cook always comes out to say hi, and make sure we’ve enjoyed our meal. We moved to Centerville a year ago, and Zink’s is by far our favorite place to enjoy a drink and fantastic plate of food. Although we are still somewhat new to the area, they treat us like family when we dine here. Keep your money local, support this fantastic business.

Susan Zhang

So the quality of the food isn't bad. It's the service you should beware of. The last two times I've went have been gravely disappointing. I'm not rich, so I plan my orders ahead of time., I call. Incident 1: I go in to pick up an order, they don't have it and they tell me "we're too busy, we're getting ready for a wine tasting." Ah. OK. So I leave and don't come back for awhile because obviously they don't care about my business. Some time passes, I decide to give them a shot. I call in an order for Thanksgiving: boneless prime rib. Now again, I'm not rich, but it's Thanksgiving and that was requested. So I call 3 days in advance, give the date I need it (the Tuesday before Thanksgiving). I come in, they've lost the order (again) but can I wait for them to cut another. Sure. I get it, feel it, and ask "is this boneless?" The cashier unwraps it quickly, looks at it, and says "yes." OK, they work at a meat shop, sure, they know. So fast-forward a day. It's the night before Thanksgiving, I'm getting everything prepped. And guess what, it's not boneless. There are quite a few bones. I call and leave a message. Now I don't expect to hear back till Friday. I make the meat. I don't have enough. Don't hear a thing back. So I call back on Cyber Monday. They don't do returns w/o product and a receipt. Fine. My credit card company says they can dispute the charge because of quality issues. My card company begins the process and calls them. They say they can do a refund. I get a call the next morning from the owner who tells me she needs information. There's an angry "sorry, the employee who agreed to that has been reprimanded." There's "Oh who was here?" There isn't how can I make this up to you? She really wants me to confirm which employees screwed up. "Was it so&so? He looks like this. You can't mistake him." So basically, no she's not going to do the refund, that's not their policy, thank you good day. So yeah. I didn't need a full refund. BUT she didn't ask or offer anything. The issue was service. And it wasn't good.

stephanie walter

Zinks Meats COULD HAVE BEEN an amazing experience. We strolled in at 5 on a Friday and bellied up to the wine bar, ready to taste some wines and grab some soup and burgers. But once the bartender poured our first wine TASTE, she never spoke to us again. Instead she spent her time discussing all things Zinks with 3 regulars and what appeared to be the owner, whose back was LITERALLY turned to me throughout our dinner (a tasty but separated beer cheese soup and lackluster unseasoned Zinks burger, ordered at the deli/register) — finally when my boyfriend left to pay, the owner turned to ask if everything was ok. Ok was exactly how I would describe the food; the service was worse. Since we had started with a $2 taste, I was drink less throughout my meal, and the complete exclusion of 2 newcomers by the staff and the regulars made me feel more unwelcome than I’ve ever felt. The stupid thing is, we WANTED to like Zinks, and any owner or bartender with even a tiny bit of social acumen would’ve had the sense to INCLUDE newcomers instead of ignoring them. Instead of making Zinks our new favorite place, the average food and members-only exclusivity make this a place we will avoid.

Todd Enderson

Great wine and food! Burgers are awesome and large wine selection.

Barbara Holtgreven

My husband and i have shopped at Zinks since the 1970's. I have shopped less since he passed away, but we always loved Zinkds meat market. Still do!

Micah Whitis

Love, love, love the food, the atmosphere, great place to meet for lunch or take your special someone for wine tasting and steak!!!!

kurt harris

Excellent Quality!!

Daniel Cook

A nice break from the chain restaurants. Meat is selected and cooked perfectly. Four of us had dinner and all steaks were tender and flavorful. A good selection of local and other wines, as well as beers.

Korbin Coward

Best seasoning! Best meat! Best people!

Jenet Mullins

I love stopping in for the Best Ruben in town. I recommend everything....and Dave and Melissa are super owners.