Dakota Butcher

Dakota Butcher is a catering company and butcher shop in Watertown, SD. The Watertown location is part of a family-owned South Dakota chain that operates six stores across the state, also serving Clark, Madison, Pierre, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls. The Watertown shop caters events of all sizes and also stocks the full range of Dakota Butcher products, including fresh cuts of beef, chicken, ribs, seafood, pork, and lamb, house-made sausage, meat sticks, jerky, summer sausage, brats, deli meats, and cheese from the company's own smokehouse. The store also carries handmade pizzas baked in-store or ready for home ovens, an array of take-home meals, grocery items such as desserts, fresh fruits and vegetables, salads, sandwiches, sauces, and rubs, plus wine, beer, and spirits. Beyond catering, Dakota Butcher offers full meat processing services. The Watertown location sits along 9th Avenue Southwest, about a third of a mile from Hanten Park and McLaughlin Nature Area, and within half a mile of the Legends attraction.

Dakota Butcher traces its roots to 2009, when the first store opened in Clark, South Dakota, and has remained family-owned since. The business grew from that single location into a six-store chain, with the Watertown shop joined most recently by the Sioux Falls store. In 2020, Dakota Butcher was named the SD Small Business Person of the Year, and the company's stated focus has always been on perfectly prepared food and friendly service. Beyond its own shelves, Dakota Butcher products are stocked in grocery stores across the region and through a network of snack hubs that make the meats available in more locations. The Watertown shop shares the same menu, smokehouse output, and catering capabilities as the rest of the chain, giving local customers access to the full lineup.

As one of six Dakota Butcher locations statewide, the Watertown shop brings the chain's full meat counter, smokehouse, pizza, and catering offerings to northeast South Dakota, just minutes from the city's parks and green spaces.