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  • “It's been about two years of construction…six months of conceptualization of menu. In 24 hours we'll know whether we've accomplished it.” Join Ari Kolender, chef and partner at Queen Street in Los Angeles, for a day behind the scenes as he prepares to open his Charleston-inspired raw bar and grill for the very first time. “This has been ours by ourselves for over two years, and we're about to give it away.”
    Director: Maria Paz Mendez Hodes
    Director of Photography: April Maxey
    Editor: Jared Hutchinson
    Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
    Culinary Researcher and Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao
    Producer: Sydney Malone
    Creative Producer: Lisa Paradise
    Line Producer: Jen McGinity
    Associate Producer: Oadhan Lynch
    Production Manager: Janine Dispensa; Peter Brunette
    Camera Operator: Justin Abbate
    Assistant Camera: Lucas Vilicich
    Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas; Phil Arliss
    Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
    Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
    Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
    Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
    Special Thanks: Liza Prijatel Thors & the Queen Street Family
    Filmed on Location at Queen Street | 4701 E. York Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90042
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Komentáře • 168

  • @SC-ko9nk
    @SC-ko9nk Před 10 měsíci +34

    bro charges 46 bucks for some mid lamb AND tortures sea creatures? Yikes lmao

    • @Shinkajo
      @Shinkajo Před 9 měsíci +1

      How you know the lamb is mid though?

    • @SC-ko9nk
      @SC-ko9nk Před 9 měsíci

      @@Shinkajo C'mon, look at it.

  • @hotshot619
    @hotshot619 Před 10 měsíci +39

    Stopped watching when he was breaking claws and talking about how they boil alive. I hunt and eat meat but there is no reason to not dispatch an animal before harvesting. Take a bath in boiling water and then tell me its quick. Just use a knife to the head, as most modern chefs do now adays.

  • @hannac5535
    @hannac5535 Před 10 měsíci +216

    I was really shocked by hin pulling the legs of the alive crab

  • @brendanconnelly1835
    @brendanconnelly1835 Před 10 měsíci +307

    As a carnivore I'm amazed that no one freaks out as this guy just casually pulls the claws off a live crab. Don't get me wrong the pigs, cows, lamb, etc. don't have a painless death. But when it comes to seafood I feel 99% of people just don't care nearly as much as they do for our four legged creatures.
    I would like to see a opening day video as well

    • @ReganAtSea
      @ReganAtSea Před 10 měsíci +1

      tru

    • @matthewmarkham5096
      @matthewmarkham5096 Před 10 měsíci +49

      I got a kick out of him talking about a quick death by boiling, literally as he was ripping all its legs off 💀

    • @creativgirl1
      @creativgirl1 Před 10 měsíci +27

      I am also a carnivore. Had to stop the video at that moment.

    • @annetteu.7226
      @annetteu.7226 Před 10 měsíci +18

      I found this procedure extremely cruel and almost stopped the video… 🥺

    • @michaelmiller6822
      @michaelmiller6822 Před 10 měsíci

      I've seen people take knives to brain stem of lobster to give an actual quick death. Guy probably just doesn't care.

  • @CallieAnya
    @CallieAnya Před 10 měsíci +204

    Why did he rip the legs off a live crab? I do eat meat but this seemed unnecessarily cruel, even within the context that all meat eating is technically cruel.

    • @anhthynguyen9253
      @anhthynguyen9253 Před 10 měsíci +7

      ikr, what happens to the method of ‘’putting them in the fridge to sleep’’ thing?

  • @edmendoza1736
    @edmendoza1736 Před 10 měsíci +56

    Wow did he say he's "training" people 24 hrs before opening?

  • @sahilradio
    @sahilradio Před 10 měsíci +53

    “Teaching” chefs the recipe or how to butcher the DAY before. Cmon.

    • @ewiken5529
      @ewiken5529 Před 10 měsíci +2

      I know, seemed wild to me you’re training your staff this close to open. Regardless of experience. Hope this was a “soft open”

    • @brendanconnelly1835
      @brendanconnelly1835 Před 10 měsíci +13

      I agree it seems odd that he's showing his sous chef how to cook a pie dough the day before. I would think a receipe like that should have been locked in a month in advance. A dish with more seasonal ingredients is something I could see being worked on last minute based on flavors.

    • @GrizzO12
      @GrizzO12 Před 10 měsíci +5

      probably just “teaching” them for the video 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @MarcPhillips817
      @MarcPhillips817 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@GrizzO12 I know. So many people take this literally. It's a production!

    • @kinkinmyslinky967
      @kinkinmyslinky967 Před 10 měsíci +2

      $42 for lamb ribs. There’s not much to a lamb rib. They used to be a gimmick 25 years ago when you served lamb loin on a degustation.

  • @jameswelsh4479
    @jameswelsh4479 Před 10 měsíci +112

    What a basted ripping claws off live crab

  • @oliviadreisinger
    @oliviadreisinger Před 10 měsíci +189

    i'll echo all the comments about the violent way he tore the limbs off the still-alive crab

    • @Chancethecapper
      @Chancethecapper Před 10 měsíci +10

      Don’t nobody gaf abt that crab

    • @etf42
      @etf42 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@Chancethecapper exactly. fake outrage.

    • @Angel-mi6qs
      @Angel-mi6qs Před 5 měsíci

      @@Chancethecapperyou haven’t read the comments 😂

  • @sparklypinkleopard26
    @sparklypinkleopard26 Před 7 měsíci +6

    this guy and his love for butchering fish is such an ick. idk what i expected but he gives psychopathic vibes 😅

  • @jesselopez904
    @jesselopez904 Před 8 měsíci +14

    Their prices are absolutely insane 🎉😂

  • @JonnySublime
    @JonnySublime Před 10 měsíci +22

    How can it be the hottest anything if it’s not even open yet

  • @St1of1
    @St1of1 Před 10 měsíci +12

    Ribs for 42$! Mythhh😂 finesse the rich i guess

  • @brandondeen4575
    @brandondeen4575 Před 10 měsíci +44

    I’m glad to see TJ Miller is doing better

  • @asubaseball219
    @asubaseball219 Před 10 měsíci +90

    What kind of psycopath's dream job is butchering live fish?

    • @Talittli
      @Talittli Před 10 měsíci +4

      I love fish but this bothers me most about it same with any kind of meat actually as well

    • @crimsonDyNaM0
      @crimsonDyNaM0 Před 10 měsíci +9

      Never cooked fresh seafood a day in your life.

    • @DanielGarcia-ro6lq
      @DanielGarcia-ro6lq Před 10 měsíci +1

      Who cares

    • @OhItsKobi
      @OhItsKobi Před 8 měsíci

      ​@DanielGarcia-ro6lq people should care. Just because humans are higher on the food chain, doesn't mean we have to act poorly. It's unethical

    • @DanielGarcia-ro6lq
      @DanielGarcia-ro6lq Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@OhItsKobi they are just things we eat it doesn’t matter if you are unethical or notn

  • @ambergarvey1360
    @ambergarvey1360 Před 10 měsíci +6

    this guy is the chef in the little mermaid 🔪

  • @mauriciocampos7915
    @mauriciocampos7915 Před 10 měsíci +46

    Lost me with the crab and again with the imported caviar

  • @sunflowerbaby1853
    @sunflowerbaby1853 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Barbaric 🦀🦀🦀

  • @quesiaevan
    @quesiaevan Před 6 měsíci +1

    WOW! I didn't need to see the crab scene.

  • @CreamyJalapeno
    @CreamyJalapeno Před 10 měsíci +2

    I read the title in SNL Stephon’s voice

  • @PauIieWalnuts
    @PauIieWalnuts Před 9 měsíci +1

    Glad Bachman landed on his feet after that opium den phase.

  • @mosesbravo7622
    @mosesbravo7622 Před 10 měsíci +17

    The Bear not enough fork reference is awesome.

  • @pentagramparsons
    @pentagramparsons Před 10 měsíci +6

    Patrick Bateman cooking

  • @jenniferthomas6273
    @jenniferthomas6273 Před 10 měsíci +5

    If you close your eyes and just listen the guy in the yellow shirt sounds just like Aziz Ansari 😊

  • @onestepza
    @onestepza Před 10 měsíci +1

    Crab 🦀 be like “ ouch “

  • @slopper
    @slopper Před 10 měsíci +76

    How can it be the hottest restaurant before it's open?

    • @jameswelsh4479
      @jameswelsh4479 Před 10 měsíci +10

      Pre hype and anticipation?

    • @kpNov23
      @kpNov23 Před 10 měsíci +2

      😂 maybe literally?

    • @PLF...
      @PLF... Před 10 měsíci +9

      Because hot means new. Its about clout, not quality

    • @marklim6054
      @marklim6054 Před 10 měsíci +9

      Hottest. Poor ventilation

    • @ijimenez145
      @ijimenez145 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Man's not hot

  • @yeaokaysure
    @yeaokaysure Před 10 měsíci +124

    I need a part 2!

  • @brian-ld4vd
    @brian-ld4vd Před 10 měsíci +15

    How come people that own businesses seem like douches? Not the chef guy either.

  • @morganoconnor9409
    @morganoconnor9409 Před 6 měsíci

    Beachcomber shirt!

  • @karadigiacomo5856
    @karadigiacomo5856 Před 10 měsíci +150

    Ripping the legs off of something that is still alive is cruel.

    • @snakemongoosepanther
      @snakemongoosepanther Před 10 měsíci +8

      Agreed!

    • @oliviadreisinger
      @oliviadreisinger Před 10 měsíci +11

      I was also horrified

    • @phonedave
      @phonedave Před 10 měsíci +42

      Also. " we boil them alive because it is quick" as he throws them into a pot with no water after he ripped their legs off.

    • @nicks8026
      @nicks8026 Před 10 měsíci +2

      It’s cruelly delicious!

    • @henryt9281
      @henryt9281 Před 10 měsíci +4

      You type while you're snacking on chicken nuggets ...

  • @SolidLMG
    @SolidLMG Před 10 měsíci +20

    how much did they pay you to do this lmao

    • @Booshay__
      @Booshay__ Před 10 měsíci +3

      This restaurant probably hired a PR firm to help build hype. One of those tactics was probably to get BA to film a piece on it.

  • @MrAnarchy26
    @MrAnarchy26 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Yeah. You lost me at ripping the crab apart alive.

  • @nicks8026
    @nicks8026 Před 10 měsíci +55

    They’re a little late to the party. The “East Coast Style” raw bar, seafood restaurant has been something of a mini-trend here in Los Angeles for at least the last five years. I can name a handful of restaurants of this type, even a few that are within five to ten minutes of Queen St. I wish them the best but percolating in the concept stage for more than two years could prove to be a serious issue.

    • @ReganAtSea
      @ReganAtSea Před 10 měsíci

      can u actually name them pls

    • @nicks8026
      @nicks8026 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@ReganAtSea Here are two: The Lonely Oyster, Rappahannock Oyster Bar.

    • @Rainokoe321
      @Rainokoe321 Před 10 měsíci

      Rappahannock has a few locations throughout the US including Charleston haha@@nicks8026

    • @TheShelbinator3000
      @TheShelbinator3000 Před 10 měsíci +7

      @@nicks8026 The same group that does Found Oyster, and now Queen Street, also opened up Barra Santos in Cypress Park a couple months back. They've been busy.

    • @ScottFidler
      @ScottFidler Před 8 měsíci

      Checkout the blue oyster bar

  • @aenema1983
    @aenema1983 Před 10 měsíci +11

    Mid AF

  • @rashaddavis1747
    @rashaddavis1747 Před 10 měsíci

    Souf Cac💪🏾

  • @marieronrancesvlog
    @marieronrancesvlog Před 10 měsíci +16

    The restaurant looks clean, big and cozy. It seems like that you are ready for opening coz you know what you are doing.

  • @gracehebert7661
    @gracehebert7661 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Pulling the legs off a live crab and boiling it alive...also not even flash boiling, but brining it up to a boil with them in there, absolutely not

  • @Ngan.marianguyen
    @Ngan.marianguyen Před 9 měsíci

    I’d shuck 20 of those oysters no problems!

  • @DevinTheMaestro
    @DevinTheMaestro Před 10 měsíci

    Does anyone know the title of the background music?

  • @thediner8929
    @thediner8929 Před 10 měsíci

    Guy with the glasses looks like TJ Miller.

  • @scottsummers4234
    @scottsummers4234 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Poor Sebastian 😢

  • @devoncr
    @devoncr Před 6 měsíci +1

    Crab murderer!!!

  • @RLH_ITALIA
    @RLH_ITALIA Před 10 měsíci +24

    Great to see a new restaurant in LA menuing uniqueness

  • @thales5955
    @thales5955 Před 10 měsíci +10

    Great video, really cool to see the final hours before opening

  • @cloudeater9498
    @cloudeater9498 Před 9 měsíci

    Erlich Bachman is still alive 😯

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Love your content guys🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

  • @ChrisControversial
    @ChrisControversial Před 10 měsíci +33

    Something about this just screams pretentious.

  • @tommyphu307
    @tommyphu307 Před 10 měsíci +150

    Threw me off when he ripped the claw alive. Very unethical and just disappointing

    • @semnome2jsjcia
      @semnome2jsjcia Před 6 měsíci

      SHUT UP

    • @calmkitten-meditationmusic5835
      @calmkitten-meditationmusic5835 Před 6 měsíci +1

      And not a reaction to the fishs eye popping out?? Also happening while its alive. Just dont eat animals… so easy.

    • @atp1130
      @atp1130 Před 6 měsíci

      They grow back

    • @samross8404
      @samross8404 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Ppl say that all the time but I don't see anyone putting down crawfish because that's way to inconvenient but they are pretty much the same thing

    • @First1ToComment
      @First1ToComment Před 6 měsíci +2

      Calm down y'all too sensitive

  • @IAM45327
    @IAM45327 Před 10 měsíci

    Yes!

  • @90BUGAHSUGAH
    @90BUGAHSUGAH Před 10 měsíci

    The bear season 3 😂

  • @LA-oh7ov
    @LA-oh7ov Před 10 měsíci +4

    This is amazing ❤❤❤

  • @ewtam24
    @ewtam24 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Very cool! Thank you!

  • @knarkarbengt
    @knarkarbengt Před 10 měsíci +10

    Mellow version of The Bear season 2

  • @ridethespiral1219
    @ridethespiral1219 Před 9 měsíci

    No point to making she-crab soup anymore. Especially with how much a dozen costs here in Maryland.

  • @sandradaniel9026
    @sandradaniel9026 Před 9 měsíci

    Nice

  • @mattymattffs
    @mattymattffs Před 10 měsíci +2

    It's too bad all these restaurants open in LA. I'll never get to go.

    • @erichooper9858
      @erichooper9858 Před 10 měsíci

      head to South Carolina for the same menu but half the price.

  • @fraffeetan9395
    @fraffeetan9395 Před 10 měsíci

    Interesting 💡

  • @Street-shitter
    @Street-shitter Před 2 měsíci

    Head chef🤣🤣🤣

  • @saxonray4071
    @saxonray4071 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I noticed no head coverings and everyone wasn't wearing gloves. But 1 when cutting the pork chops. Very unsanitary.
    As well as the crab situation.
    Count me out! I wouldn't eat there

    • @creiglamb6036
      @creiglamb6036 Před 8 měsíci +1

      no one in high end restaurants wears gloves/hair nets sweetie

    • @saxonray4071
      @saxonray4071 Před 8 měsíci

      @@creiglamb6036
      Any restaurant that serves food should wear head covering and gloves Sweetie

    • @cococanes
      @cococanes Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@saxonray4071most high end restaurants don’t wear gloves or hair nets

  • @LONGBEACHORIIGINAL
    @LONGBEACHORIIGINAL Před 8 měsíci

    I went there. Worth every penny.

  • @meticulouslyeliminatinghaters
    @meticulouslyeliminatinghaters Před 10 měsíci +8

    Reported for animal abuse.

  • @annaortega7329
    @annaortega7329 Před 6 měsíci

    I don’t like how they don’t put a lid on their meat

  • @clausherther
    @clausherther Před 10 měsíci +1

    Total aside: but every time he gets flour on the Rolex, my watch nerd heart bleeds a little

  • @xxgo0kst3rxx
    @xxgo0kst3rxx Před 7 měsíci

    I’m pretty sure since they are opening having to get things in place so they can have a smooth first day played into the way he handled the crab, I mean people eat soft shells you know what kitchen people have to do in order to serve soft shells..

  • @anamariapatrulescu3137
    @anamariapatrulescu3137 Před 10 měsíci

    has anybody seen the prices?

  • @GO-fl6cr
    @GO-fl6cr Před 10 měsíci +156

    Unethical restaurant. He mutilated the crab alive and say they boil them alive.

    • @jorgeenchilada
      @jorgeenchilada Před 10 měsíci +48

      That to me was unbelievable. If you're already boiling the crab alive, at least put them in the boiling water immediately following tearing off the claws. It's the least you could do. Rather than throwing them on top of each other in the container while they suffer so much pain so slowly.

    • @ghostid544
      @ghostid544 Před 10 měsíci +37

      I honestly was expecting more posts like this. Especially given his reasoning for cooking them alive was because it tastes better... I wonder how the front of house describe the taste. "Light with an air of agony and wisps of mutilation!." Nom nom nom nom.

    • @GO-fl6cr
      @GO-fl6cr Před 10 měsíci +10

      @@jorgeenchilada couldn't agree more.

    • @henryt9281
      @henryt9281 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@brandonwilcox3273 As you munch on beef jerky ...

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht Před 10 měsíci +7

      Yea none of you know a thing about cooking or butchering do you?

  • @mrjoshuaburger
    @mrjoshuaburger Před 10 měsíci +1

    Noooooo! Where is the rest?! I couldn't believe it when the credits appeared. Great video!

  • @Chris-el4hd
    @Chris-el4hd Před 10 měsíci +2

    All the folks on here complaining about the crab, have to step into a real kitchen. Real kitchens aspire to be ethical

    • @SC-ko9nk
      @SC-ko9nk Před 10 měsíci

      Evil isn't mutually exclusive.
      Just because real kitchens can be worse doesn't mean this kitchen isn't awful.

  • @eighty9
    @eighty9 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Where's the part 2?

  • @Zeyek1
    @Zeyek1 Před 10 měsíci +12

    rich people food

    • @bdoom6283
      @bdoom6283 Před 10 měsíci +1

      broke person comment

  • @jamesrush07
    @jamesrush07 Před 10 měsíci

    Somebody been watching the Bear 😂😂😂

  • @mryark83
    @mryark83 Před 10 měsíci +5

    you should put the restaurant name in the title of these videos!!!

  • @captaindo3569
    @captaindo3569 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Hi

  • @IndigoStargazer
    @IndigoStargazer Před 6 měsíci +1

    Boycott

  • @vin7281
    @vin7281 Před 10 měsíci

    What’s their social page?

  • @3MUNISH
    @3MUNISH Před 6 měsíci +1

    Disrespectful

  • @liteprotoss
    @liteprotoss Před 5 měsíci +1

    Come now, BA. You guys really didn't at least edit out in the dismemberment of a live animal? I thought culinary journalists would know better.

  • @WendyRichards-uq3cu
    @WendyRichards-uq3cu Před 10 měsíci +16

    No one in their kitchen is wearing gloves or hair coverings for hygiene.😐🤔

  • @reptocilicus
    @reptocilicus Před 10 měsíci +11

    I’m not impressed.

  • @thechateaufarm
    @thechateaufarm Před 10 měsíci +1

    Great video but I’m a little dismayed by how everyone is wearing jewellery in the kitchen

  • @garthstruddlefudd8408
    @garthstruddlefudd8408 Před 10 měsíci +12

    Executive chef: Sam Hyde

  • @DavidBenson2
    @DavidBenson2 Před 10 měsíci +22

    Not him talking about the Gullah Geechee heritage of the food and there being exactly one black person (maybe?) on the entire staff, and looks like none in the kitchen...🥲 When people talk about nice progressives doing just as much harm, this is what they mean. What a missed opportunity to employ some black culinary staff to show how much you ACTUALLY care about the roots of the cuisine you're serving instead of using it as a means to be an edge lord in the LA food scene. Very disappointing, smh.

    • @DangerSquiggles
      @DangerSquiggles Před 10 měsíci +3

      Just hiring black staff because the Gullah Geechee are also black would be just as ignorant.

    • @spoken2
      @spoken2 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@DangerSquigglesyeah, kinda like white people cooking culturally , authentic African American food and eating they created it …

    • @jdelorenzod2725
      @jdelorenzod2725 Před 9 měsíci

      you want them to hire blacks just cuz they're black?

  • @Your_Wife.s_Boyfriend
    @Your_Wife.s_Boyfriend Před 10 měsíci

    Dude's a serial killer.

  • @TheOriginalArchie
    @TheOriginalArchie Před 10 měsíci

    Should have called it "Non-Binary Street" because I already know if I search it on Google or Yelp it's gonna have bad reviews (even if they are fake). I'd eat there, but the search nerds wont.