America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on . Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with Clay McBride about the restaurant’s special place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.

Beast & Bird, located in Vinton, Iowa, began its flavorful journey in 2021 as a mobile food truck, captivating the taste buds of locals with its mouth-watering barbecue creations. Clay McBride, along with his son Justin and partner Logan Merchant, transformed their passion for quality food into a thriving enterprise. The success of their food truck led to the establishment of a permanent location in 2024, where they combined their barbecue expertise with a unique beverage service through McBride Mobile Taps, creating a vibrant restaurant and speakeasy.

The menu showcases standout items like the Pork Belly Burnt Ends, a hand-cut delicacy smoked to perfection and glazed with house-made sauce, and the Trifecta Platter, offering a generous assortment of three meats and three sides, all prepared on-site. Their signature Smoked Maple Old Fashioned cocktail, crafted with in-house smoked maple syrup and garnished with bacon, has quickly become a customer favorite.

The restaurant's atmosphere reflects its commitment to community, with a focus on locally sourced ingredients and everything made from scratch.

“We believe barbecue should be done the way it was meant to be—slow, handcrafted, and full of flavor,” says Clay McBride. This dedication to quality, combined with their active engagement in local events, positions Beast & Bird as a beloved gathering spot in Vinton, embodying the spirit of its community.

America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location on from to . The press is invited to attend.The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ website.

Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are selected based on their customer reviews, menu items, social media presence, and level of involvement with their community. They are found through customer nominations, internal vetting or by a restaurant applying to be featuredat www.americasbestrestaurants.com.

About Beast & Bird

Beast & Bird is located at 314 North K Avenue, Vinton IA 52349. For more information visit https://www.thebeastandbird.com/.

About ABR

Headquartered in Florence, KY, America’s Best Restaurants is a national media and restaurant marketing company that travels the country telling the stories and highlighting the unique food of locally owned independent restaurants as part of its ABR Roadshow. Restaurants are featured not only on ABR’s Restaurant Network of social media channels and website, but also each individual establishment’s Facebook page. With over 2000 episodes filmed, America’s Best Restaurants is the premier marketing agency for restaurant owners and operators to have their story broadcast coast-to-coast. Visit AmericasBestRestaurants.com to learn more and to  view the episodes and profiles of hundreds of America’s Best Restaurants.