After passing this restaurant many times, I decided to try Beast for dinner, despite reading the rave reviews about their brunch. The restaurant was very small with a cute patio outside and was as a perfect place for an intimate date night out.
What i liked about this place was that their menu was ever changing, using the freshest seasonal ingredients that were all sourced locally. We needed some help from our waiter to figure out what everything was on the menu since some stuff was a bit foreign to us but he was very knowledgeable and led us in the right direction on what to order. Everything on the menu was tapas/small sharing plates so we ordered 5 things to share between the two of us:
1. Warm marinated olives - came with three types of olives. Being a huge olive fan, I was surprised that I liked them with some heat (temperature)
2. Parker House rolls with pimento cheese - the rolls were super buttery and fresh out of the oven.
3. Esquites (mexican corn salad with trout) - Lots of great Mexican flavours, but if you do not like when a dish has too fishy of a taste, then I wouldn't recommend this dish.
4. Green Beans - with ricotta cheese, black beans and amazing lemony flavour. One of my favourites that I tried!
5. Poutine Fried Gnocchi - pasta was good but I expected cheese curds instead of regular cheese on top
6. Pork Hocks - Fried to perfection with amazing Asian flavours. No porky taste whatsoever! Highly recommend!
Overall we really enjoyed our meal. We definitely will be back again to try the brunch menu!