To be fair Meat On The Beach can tend toward the wrong side of the price bell curve, wrong being expensive. Yet pricing is indicative of the socioeconomic landscape of the area that it serves. This is after all the Beach or Beaches if you will, where over 55% of dual income families generate well over the 100K mark annually and inhabitants have the luxury of time, in that they can engage in silly time consuming debates about what their area should actually be called. Its like arguing over the correct pronunciation of say potato or po-tado.
Enough of that rant. What I like about MOTB:
1. Family owned and operated
2. Ernesto the owner/operator is a third generation Butcher, which is handy when your running a meat shop
3. The aforementioned Ernesto makes incredible garlic and sea salt bagel chips that go perfectly with baba ghanouj and MOTB has a fantastic baba sans artery clogging mayo which is always a plus.
I could only give MOTB a three star rating because it can be cramped, service can be slow and it is a bit on the pricey side and I feel that it may be resting on earlier greatness. That greatness being when it was located on Queen at Kenilworth. MOTB does have an accoutrement of house branded sauces, rubs and dressings and kudos to them for having the entrepreneurial grit and fortitude to market themselves, I simply hope that MOTB doesn't suffer from the same affliction that has plagued other Queen St. greats think Licks.