Apr

11

BaconFest 2011 = Delicious DIRT

Filed Under Chefs, Chicago, Elevate Your Presence, Events, Exclusive, Food Mafia, Food Nerds, Food Porn 

Delicious DIRT. BaconFest 2011

Inside: Moto, Boka, Nana, The Piggery, Bakon Vodka, David Burke’s Primehouse, iNG, Piccolo Sogno, RB Grille, Park Grill, The Black Sheep, Forest Grill, Custom House Tavern, Boka, Gemini Bistro, Inovasi, Vie, The Bedford, Zacapa Rum, Sable Kitchen & Bar, South Water Kitchen, Terzo Piano, one sixtyblue, Signature Room, Longman & Eagle, Lillie Q’s, Cafe des Architectes, Big Jones, Black Dog Gelato y mas.

LOVE ♥ ♥ bacon?  The heavenly smell, the luscious taste, the simple ease of its flavor make bacon -> irresistible FOOD PORN.   That’s why us food nerds could not get enough of BaconFest 2011! Elevate Your Presence and Chicago Food Mafia are literally still FULL from Baconfest Chicago! Much Delicious DIRT below… Brace yourselves as your mouths will water, your hearts will flutter, your stomachs will CRAVE.  ♥, DeliciousDIRT ‘s BaconFest Team!  CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE

Longman & Eagle is an Elevate Your Presence #favorite. Photo: Longman & Eagle’s Bacon rillette lollipop w/ maple bacon cotton candy. See pic below

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You get your spatzel on? Elevate Your Presence could not get enough of Boka Grp + Giuseppe Tentori‘s #DeliciousDIRT @ Baconfest Chicago. Boka Grp’s braised #bacon with bacon spatzel @ Baconfest Chicago. We ♥ Giuseppe Tentori. See photo below.

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Big Jones’ Bacon & Foie Gras Moon Pie

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Black Dog Gelato’s Banana + Bacon’s Foster

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Anyone devour this #DeliciousDIRT (below)? Elevate Your Presence ♥’s David Burke’s Primehouse‘s bacon suckers from Baconfest Chicago. See photo below for David Burke’s Primehouse’s bacon daddy–>whiskey caramel #bacon #candy #suckers.

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Nana’s Life’s Little Pleasures Candy Bar: house-smoked bacon cake, koval whiskey, burton’s maplewood farm syrup, caramel. 

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Moto’s BLT…

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Bakon Vodka & The Piggery’s BLT Martinis… Dangerously DELISH

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Adored Lillie Q’s pork belly & grit hash with smoked gulf shrimp, bacon E.N.C. and vinegar sauce

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Vie’s roasted pork belly with meyer lemon marmalade, buttermilk biscuit, and pinenut aillade. Paul blows us away! 

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Inovasi’s Becker Lane belly quick cure and confit with grits, blue Mediterraneo cheese, and verjus-pickled cauliflower. AMAZE 

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Gemini Bistro’s The Elvis: homemade crunchy peanut butter, fried banana, honey-peppered bacon, + griddled banana bread. 

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Signature Room’s bacon-stuffed bacon, maple egg jam with whipped pancakes.

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BONUS-> 2 in 1: one sixtyblue’s pastrami-cured pork belly reuben with sauerkraut + The Southern’s smoked bacon, blue cheese, and roasted apple mac and cheese. ♥ ♥ 

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Custom House Tavern’s Bacon Manhattan: templeton rye braised pork belly, sweet vermouth & onion marmalade with tart cherry mustard. 

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Forest Grill’s roasted bacon bratwurst sausage on carmelized onions with german potato salad 

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The Black Sheep’s banana panna cotta, cherrywood smoked bacon brittle, peanut butter froth with a lady finger spoon.

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RB Grille’s house-cured apple bacon cider-braised with jicama, red onion, chile, granny slaw & Nueske’s Bacon brewery-cured Mexican-style chorizo. 

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Piccolo Sogno’s paccheri all’Amatriciana: flat tubular pasta tossed with ragu of house-cured pancetta, red onion, and tomato.

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Terzo Piano’s empanadas DELIGHT with cinnamon bacon, dried strawberry, toasted almond, & salsa verde.

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Elevate Your Presence wonders who went to Baconfest Chicago? #Buy a #T’shirt? Share #DeliciousDIRT w/us + @BaconFestCHI.

South Water Kitchen’s bacon cheddar grit waffle.

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Zacapa Rum & Sable Kitchen & Bar’s Swine and Twine: zacapa rum, bacon syrup, creme de cacao, chocolate bitters. 

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The Bedford’s crispy bacon meatballs, english pea mash, pickled mushrooms, blue cheese, bacon fat Bearnaise. Can not wait for our KEY!

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Park Grill’s berkshire pork maxwell street burger: butterkasse cheese with crisp belly bacon.

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iNG’s bacon “Drumstick.

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