swongy's top picks for baconfest

so the menu (read:line up) for baconfest is out!!!!

i'm going to have to average 18 plates per hour in order to get through all 55 stations. oh, and not to mention bacon bloody mary's, templeton rye, and goose island beers i havta sip on too! sometimes life is just soo hard :(

idk if i should be training the next week and a half by fasting or by steadily increase the size of my meals till game fest day.

so here are some of the ones i'm REALLY looking forward to:

• Bacaro: Bacon & Egg sandwich (triple-s farm bacon, fried egg puree, pickled ramp relish, mistato radish, and bacon challah) woooo repping the 217! kinda weirded out by the "egg puree"...like is it different than scrambled eggs? but wooo to the ramp relish and radish (cuz i love my condiments) and the bacon challah! i wonder if they're baking it in-house or getting it from pekara or mirabelle's
• Bleeding Heart Bakery: Bacon-wrapped house-made sausage deep-fried in croissant dough with horseradish mustard. so many hyphenated words! i would be happy with just deep-fried but adding all of these together?? sounds amazing
• The Bristol: House-extruded bacon pasta salad.  how could i pass up homemade pasta? esp one that has bacon IN it!
• Chizakaya: Baconomiyaki (Japanese stypled stuff "pizza" with Nueske's bacon, napa cabbage, pickled ginger, scallion, shrimp, nori and bonito flakes.) i've really wanted to try an okonomiyaki since i saw anthony bourdain having one on no reservations. anddd i've really wanted to have chizakaya since i heard them being described as japanese pub food. and this is a special that won't be in the restaurant..so hehe
• Flo and Santos: Peppered bacon-wrapped pork wing with a bourbon coffee barbecue sauce. According to them "a pork wing is a pork shank that has been brined, battered, and french to allow you to hold it like a wing". ummmmm so battered pork wrapped in bacon with a crazy delish sauce on a bone stick....YES PLEASE
• Hearty: Bacon Rice Crispies with assorted "cereal milk".  So i'm hoping this cereal milk is the same as momofuku's. and i've also really wanted to try the hearty boy's stuff since they've won the first season of food network star. and i wonder if they're gonna do more because i know they hosted a baconfest dinner at hb.
• Lillie's Q: Bacon on Bourbon St (bacon custard-filed bacon beignets with cafe du monde coffee and chicory bacon syrup.) still have never been to NOLA so this could make up for that? bacon.in.every.single.layer.oh.my.geez.
• Paddy Long's: Bacon Grenades (mini bacon bombs beer-battered and deep fried). I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS ALL MEANS BUT I WANT IT. and i'm obviously intrigued if it has "bomb" in its title.
• Pleasant House Bakery: Bacon and pork pie w/ bacon fat crust.  i keep hearing how amazing their pasties are. so i can only imagine how insane the crust is gonna be with bacon fat added
• Union Sushi: Panko bacon w baby arugula salad served with a bacon reduction and house-tonkatsu sauce. Bull&theBear has an asian-themed breaded bacon dish too but union's sounds better to me. aaand this plate actually has veggies! the house-made tonkatsu sauce is an added bonus.
• West Town Tavern: Bourbon-bacon caramel corn. i've heard of something like this before. but didn't have the opportunity to order it. so i def wanna try it at the fest.
• ZED451: Bacon pancake pops in a bourbon glaze so i'm kind of a bummed that it's on their regular menu but w/e. this sounds really good.

ok, so i guess it's not really a short list. but i REAAAALLLY tried to pick out my favs from the list of 55 booths.

i'm too nervous to check out the dinner shift in fear i'll be really jealous haha

anyways.... SOSOOSOSOSOSOOS PUMPED :)