Tip Top Meats, a well-known Deli and butcher shop in Carlsbad, opened in 1967 with owner John Haedrich making sausages and slicing meats. He’s 87 years old and to this day he adds a pinch of this and a pinch of that in his sausages.

Sausages galore

Sausages galore

He still cuts meat by hand as a trained master carver and precisely forms the hamburger patties. His grandson Matt, works in the store and his grandfather is his hero.

Tip Top Meats

6118 Paseo Del Norte

Carlsbad, Ca (760) 438.2620