Beast

Come and Learn the Legend of The Beast, London’s latest and most exclusive King Crab & Steak Restaurant. A unique fine dining experience.

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Beast London Review | British GQ

Beast, restaurant review: Give me attention to detail rather than ...

Once you've got your bib on – a fun, informal touch – they bring out a quarter wheel of Parmesan, pickled artichokes, green olives from Sicily and black olives from Morocco, and caramelised onions, too.

Out comes the steak, the chef having guessed at a good weight for two to share (that's how they roll: don't question the concept!)

Succulent, tender, piping hot, beautifully medium-rare and marbled, fatty and flavoursome without being greasy, it's the sort of cut you'd travel miles to search out.

But the king crab, whose pink-white flesh emerges with very little resistance, sprays the flavour of the Arctic Circle all over the place.

I know this is London, but at £100 per person with booze, I wish we could have seen each other properly, heard ourselves speak, and left without sore arses.

Beast | Marylebone | Restaurant Reviews | Hot Dinners

Beast, restaurant review: Give me attention to detail rather than ...

Once you've got your bib on – a fun, informal touch – they bring out a quarter wheel of Parmesan, pickled artichokes, green olives from Sicily and black olives from Morocco, and caramelised onions, too.

Out comes the steak, the chef having guessed at a good weight for two to share (that's how they roll: don't question the concept!)

Succulent, tender, piping hot, beautifully medium-rare and marbled, fatty and flavoursome without being greasy, it's the sort of cut you'd travel miles to search out.

But the king crab, whose pink-white flesh emerges with very little resistance, sprays the flavour of the Arctic Circle all over the place.

I know this is London, but at £100 per person with booze, I wish we could have seen each other properly, heard ourselves speak, and left without sore arses.

Fancy Crab Restaurant Review

Fortunately for all concerned, King Crabs freeze very well — they suffer from little of the chewiness or wooliness that can afflict frozen lobster, and lose none of their distinct meaty sweetness.

And so the idea is that Fancy Crab can use the cheaper frozen product, cooked and frozen on the factory ships straight after they’re hauled out of the water, to offer this premium animal to hungry Londoners without the extortionate costs associated with keeping, and cooking live crabs.

Doing the maths is difficult, as Beast charge £18 for 100g of crab with a minimum order of 400g, and Fancy Crab charge per joint of leg, with the ‘Merus’ £23 (the largest part of the leg), the ‘Rose’ £17 (the knuckle where the leg meets the body), and £14 for the ‘Carpus’ (the lower portion of the leg up to the tip).

So if you order all 3 bits of leg from Fancy Crab it would cost £56, and only £72 for 400g from Beast, which seems odd, considering that at Beast the animals are cooked from live.

On the other hand, an entire crab at Fancy Crab is £89/kilo, and it’s £120/kilo at Beast, and with each animal usually 3–4kg that’s quite a saving on the frozen product.

Grace Dent reviews Beast | London Evening Standard

ES Food Newsletter There is much that is challenging about the concept of new London steak and crab restaurant Beast.

The first thing is saying its name, ‘Beast’, when inviting someone to come with you without laughing, raising two scrunched fists up to your brow to denote bears’ ears and saying ‘BEEEEEEEAST!’

Beast has a similar scant-choice strategy but is a very different, um, animal, due to its debauched price bracket.

It’s a no-menu, like-it-or-lump-it parmesan and pickle starter, then steak, then king crab, plus some sides and a pudding.

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Beast: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The Guardian

You could bang on about the bizarre pricing structure, and the vertiginous nature of those prices; about the rough-hewn communal tables that are so wide you can’t sit opposite your dining companion because you wouldn’t be able to hear each other, and the long benches which make wearing a skirt a dodgy idea unless you’re desperate to flash the rest of the heavily male clientele.

Instead you should accept Beast as the most unintentionally funny restaurant to open in London in a very long time.

It is a venture by the Moscow-born company behind the admirable steakhouse Goodman, and the clever and ever-expanding chain Burger and Lobster, where you can get only an expensive burger or a cheap lobster, both for £20.

When it first opened a few months ago, it offered only a set menu for £75 a head: a few antipasti of aged parmesan and the like, followed by 400g of bone-in rib-eye per person, and a quarter each of Norwegian king crab, a species which cleverly manages to be both a delicacy and a cause for concern to environmentalists due to the way it is advancing down the Norwegian coast.

At that price they should lead the damn animal into the restaurant and install it under the table so it can pleasure me while I eat.