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"An extension of Beast and Cleaver, this part-time English pub and part-time whole-animal butchery production space channels Kevin Smith’s exacting standards into a menu unlike any other pub around. You can get things calling themselves meat pies anywhere, but nothing like the lamb neck pie here — fatty, rich, indulgent, and encased in a sturdy pastry shell. The dry-aged steaks are so loaded with umami you get notes of mushroom, and from the bone marrow and parsley salad to the Scotched eggs to the “pig head McNugget,” it reads not just as an ode to Smith’s native England but as a monument to the virtues of meat in all its guises." - Harry Cheadle