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Beast Craft BBQ Co.
David Sandusky’s Beast Craft BBQ Co., newly crowned the area’s best barbecue in last year’s STL 100, will open a second location this spring in the Grove. Besides the barbecue restaurant proper, the new Beast Butcher & Block will feature an in-house butcher shop and the Skullery, a research-and-development kitchen and chef’s-table restaurant. In the meantime, Sandusky’s barbecue is only as far as Belleville, including the domestic-wagyu beef brisket and Duroc-breed pork that catapulted Beast into the Top 25 in 2018. “My goal is to beat myself for best barbecue in St. Louis,” Sandusky told the Post-Dispatch when announcing the new location last year. I’m not betting against him.
Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. or sold out daily (Belleville), 11 a.m.-10 p.m. or sold out daily (St. Louis)
Last year's ranking: No. 20
Opened: 2014