CHAR: BEAST

Photo by George Voronov

Beast

Gav and Ais have built a highly successful plant-based food brand that has blazed a trail at the markets and festival circuits over the last five years, but the time has come for a bricks and mortar vegan haven in the city. This is Beast, in the words of co-founder Gav Pedley.

Photo by George Voronov

What is Beast?

"Beast isn’t a restaurant, it’s kind of a diner but it’s not really a diner either. It’s me and Ais having a dinner party, it’s us doing what we like doing. It’s having a kind of social expression and a little bit of art as well."

The Food?

"We go for comfort food and it’s very diner inspired because that’s the type of food that gives you genuine pleasure, it’s a bit naughty, it’s not your health food stuff. It doesn’t comment on you in any way. If you walk into a restaurant and get a traditional vegan option, more than likely people are going to think healthy and vegan at the same time and that makes a comment about the person eating it by the person cooking it. That’s not what we do. We cook the food that we want."

Must try?

"The bacon has always been the biggest winner, it’s the thing we introduce people to first."

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