Message from Beast
- Outdoor seating
- Variety of tapas
- Selection of wine
Beast serves tapas and small plate dishes that are perfect for sharing. A few notable menu items include portobello mushrooms, venison, skirt steaks, pear tartlett, burgers, garlic chicken, roasted vegetables, fish, and spicy almonds, to name a few. The menu at Beast frequently changes and this restaurant has an extensive selection of wine served in quartino - a glass and a half.
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Editorial Description by Citysearch
The Scene
The wrought iron fence encircling this corner restaurant only hints at its slightly goth interior. Renderings of mythical creatures festoon its walls, and heavily tattooed waitresses pick up orders from the open kitchen and chat at the small bar. The clientele, as mixed as the neighborhood, gathers in groups in the spacious back room.
The Food
Beast is not a conventional tapas bar. Generous servings are piled on small plates, and eclectic house specialties outshine the traditional Spanish dishes--like the overly eggy tortilla. Try the complimentary flatbread--seasoned with a heavy hand--chewy, charred, and addictive, and breaded and fried Manchego, a clever spin on mozzarella sticks. Ribs braised in Guinness fall off the bone, and luxurious seared scallops pair well with the Italian Fiano, a soft white wine with honeyed fruit flavors. Finish with a rich chocolate pot de creme or, better yet, grilled baby bananas with homemade pistachio ice cream.
Rated 8.0 out of 10 by Citysearch.
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29 Reviews of Beast
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The food is so good I almost fainted  5
My boyfriend and I went here after a long day of a long week. We ordered some wine and picked a few things from the menu. Each dish was perfect in taste, presentation and temperature. Why can't we eat like this everyday! We had the scallops and the steak. I'm getting goosebumps. Overall with the 4 dishes and the wine our bill was only about $60! The building itself is great and they did a really nice job rehabbing it. Highly recommended when you need just the perfect place and perfect food to end a long day.
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beautiful place great food  4
the design and great the pplace is really well done and you can't beat an outside patio! The food is delicious, Tapa are the way to go, share with your freinds... tey have a good wine selection too and great drinks!
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Nothing bad, but nothing really good either.
By WolfBrad
Nothing bad, but nothing really good either.
Everything was tasty, but nothing really that ht the spot. The place does have a romantic vibe, but I don't know if I want to come back.
Cheese plate was too expensive and not that great. Seriously had better.
Posted 02/18/09
I love This Place
By ploomis
I have been here time and time again. The menu is constantly updated and challenges me to try to new things (which I'm typically not very good at). This is the type of place that makes you think of "Top Chef" - where they make the beautifully presented dishes that happily surprise you.
Posted 12/07/08
Great food, great wine, iffy service
By kristomp1976
If you want really amazing food with a well though out wine selection, go to this place! However, the servers are really unorganized and not very polite about it when they make mistakes.
But really, the food and drink is fabulous.
Posted 11/11/08
I have mixed feelings about this place.
By smitthhjen
The first time I came here with friends, we came in the afternoon and ordered only tapas. Tapas and tapas and tapas and they were GOOD. The service was friendly, the sangria was good, and the tapas were wonderful. My friends and I really enjoyed it.
And then I decided to go back almost a month later with a different group of friends, and this time we came for lunch. And we ordered actual entrees with a couple of tapas. This time the food wasn't so great. One of my friends had a VERY oversalted dish that she ended up not being able to eat, and no one seemed very happy with what they got. If I had based my opinion on this meal alone, I probably would have gotten two stars, or two and a half.
As a result, I'm giving this place three stars. I'm sorry the Beast , I will always treasure my first memories of you~
Posted 10/12/08
Inconsistent food, inconsistent service
By gyxer
I have given this place a few chances and I want to like it, but they just never seem to get it right. Most of the food consists of tapas, which is an interesting twist for that neighborhood. When the food is done right it can be very good, but I think there is some kind of flow issue in the kitchen. For instance, on one visit we ordered various tapas and the ricotta tart came out at the right temperature but the brussel sprouts came out ice cold and the manchego cheese bites were undercooked and almost solid inside. Another time I got the ribeye which was cooked perfectly medium-rare, but my friend's chicken came out dry and tasteless. Service is the same thing, once I was the only person sitting at the bar for lunch but the bartender could not tear herself away from washing glasses to come take my order. Another time my girlfriend and I sat down for dinner and were greeted by a friendly and eager waiter, only to have him switched for a dull-looking, inept waitress half way through the meal. We went from receiving capable and prompt service to having to repeat each of our drink orders because the waitress kept forgetting to enter them in! All in all, I would avoid this restaurant and eat at one of the others in the area instead.
Posted 10/02/08
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