Seattle’s burger scene suffered a blow final week, when Beast and Cleaver introduced on Fb that it was closing forty ninth Avenue Beast and Cleaver, the restaurant’s outpost inside Truthful Isle Brewing. The final day of service will likely be July 28.
forty ninth Avenue, which opened in September, didn’t actually invoice itself as a burger joint. It had a full menu of meat dishes, vegetable sides, and treats like noticed dick pudding (Beast and Cleaver co-owner Kevin Smith is British). However the burger was the factor that acquired by far probably the most hype. Earlier than forty ninth Avenue’s opening, Beast and Cleaver’s dry-aged burgers had been solely accessible at rare pop-ups. The dry-aging course of can last as long as 130 days and the butcher store–slash–restaurant didn’t have the area to retailer a lot floor beef for that lengthy, the Seattle Instances wrote. Transferring into the kitchen at Truthful Isle allowed the workforce to age and promote extra burgers, however they had been nonetheless solely accessible in restricted portions and tended to promote out.
The burgers, which come cooked medium-rare, are topped with solely American cheese, ketchup, and beef garum; the star right here is the attractive beef and nothing is allowed to obscure its place within the highlight. (Effectively, except you add bacon.)
In its Fb submit, Beast and Cleaver was obscure about why the forty ninth Avenue Beast closed, saying solely “some issues simply aren’t meant to be.” Co-owner Polly Yakovich didn’t present any extra particulars when reached by Eater Seattle, saying, “We’re extremely pleased with the workforce we had at forty ninth Avenue Beast and we predict that they’re a number of the greatest cooks within the metropolis. They produced scrumptious meals that we had been pleased with, and prospects cherished.”
The workforce at forty ninth Avenue received’t be retained by Beast and Cleaver, the spokesperson stated. The kitchen is run by Jaimon Westing, beforehand of the Willows Inn and No Anchor.
The excellent news is that Beast and Cleaver will likely be bringing again its month-to-month burger pop-ups this summer time, beginning this Friday, June 21, with a 250-day dry-aged Wagyu burger. It’ll additionally proceed to be on the menu on the restaurant’s “Beastro” menu on weekends.
