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| - Adding to the growing list of TO's tapas joints, be prepared to order about 3 plates per person at roughly $15 per plate to feel comfortably satiated. Went here for a group dinner with friends and ordered almost everything on the menu, which seems to change from time to time or variances on their online menu - which could be a good thing, as the standout of the night for me were the grilled prawns with preserved lemons, I swear I could eat those til I turn pinker than a flamingo, but hey, I'm in front of *company*.
The rest of the night? S'ok. The pickerel escebeche was sprinkled with cured lamb heart powder, which I couldn't taste. Whelks were good, but the hakka sauce was meh. Friends loved the fried gnocchi "poutine" but I found it a bit dry. Pork hocks were another hit, but again I personally found the actual meat part a bit dry.
My honest opinion is that Beast tries to be like another head-to-tail type of eating with an Asian fusion twist, but somehow it misses the mark for me. If I want to get tapas, I'd go to another popular tapas joint with higher pricer tags but matchingly high quality. If I'm in the mood for offals, I'd go for that other head-to-tail place. Sad to say, with a name like "Beast" the food was more of a soft "mew" than the roaring flavour I'd expected.
Mew.
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