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| - Enjoyed a brunch at Beast last Sunday while visiting Toronto. Restaurant was full and busy for brunch but we were lucky enough not to have to wait for a table. Both my fiance and I enjoyed a dark and stormy with breakfast, which were perfectly gingery.
We wanted an order of the daily doughnuts but arrived much too late as they were sold out, we were told that we were almost guaranteed an order if we had arrived by 11:30am but by 12:00pm they were often sold out. Instead we shared the delicious poutine of the day which happened to be braised short ribs. This dish was delicious and we highly recommend enjoying it no matter the meat of the day is as we are sure it will always be tasty, our one criticism of the dish is that as a whole the dish was soft and screaming for some crunch or texture. While we love a nice soft and pillowy gnocchi, which we artfully made, the dish needed some textural contrast.
For entrees we enjoyed the Breakfast sandwich, grilled pork belly which had a delightfully smoky taste, pickled onions, lettuce, and a fried egg the shining star was the kozlik's sweet and smokey mustard which really made this delicious sandwich. The menu said that the sandwich is served on an apple fritter which had me a little skeptical as where I come from and apple fritter is a very dense, super sweet doughnut type pastry. Luckily, this sandwich was on a very light buttery delicious bread similar to a croissant. My fiance ordered the crispy pork hocks which were amazing! It was our favorite item of brunch, rich, sweet, salty and absolutely delicious. The pork hocks were picked and pressed into cube like shapes so for those of you whom don't like to deal with bones you are in the clear! Both were served with home fries.
The only down fall to our visit was the decor which was a little hard on the eyes, the huge amount of dust specifically on the track lighting and in the restroom, and the numerous burned out light bulbs. When dust and lights don't matter to owners and management it makes you wonder what else is slipping through the cracks. All and all awesome meal, we would go back and would recommend this restaurant to other. Give Beast a try.
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