Bacon Anyone?
After returning to Edmonton last month, my friend kidnapped me and took me out to a new restaurant in her neighborhood, Bacon.
Yes, Bacon.
A dream come true for vegan carnivores across the planet (okay, maybe just the ones in Edmonton), the restaurant offers a selection of meat, vegetarian, and vegan dishes, to which you can add a side order of homemade pierogies, chapati, and/or bacon.
Yes, bacon.
My friend and I each had a bowl of borscht (beet soup for those of you who were not weaned on Ukrainian food in the ‘Chuck.) Then she had the Vancouver Rice Bowl, an assortment of veggies, tofu, brown rice and miso sesame gravy. I had the Prairie Paella, a non-seafood variation on the Spanish classic with Andouille sausage, exquisite marinated chicken, wild mushrooms, green beans, and chick peas.
Guess what we had on the side?
Two orders of bacon. Yes, bacon!!!
And, none of those late-night post-bar overcooked and far-too-thin 24-hour-breakfast-restaurant slices of bacon. The proud proprietors of this new porcine loving establishment, they serve the real deal. Thick, full-flavored, and lots of it.
Yes, I love bacon.
So, if you ever happen to find yourself driving North along Wayne Gretzky Drive, hankering for some prairie-style vegan-carnivore cooking, be sure to turn right at the 112th Avenue exit and head straight to Bacon.
My god. Freakin’ brilliant. Please ask them to start a franchise here in SF. Thank you.
Comment by =eekim — June 8, 2007 @ 7:15 am
Indeed. I think there should be Bacon franchises everywhere, but SF seems like a good start.
Comment by lmr — June 8, 2007 @ 9:59 am
gah, finally managed to log in
HI LAURIE!!
This is Andy Smith, wasn’t sure what a proper email address was for you but I was listening to a song titled Variations on a Theme and decided that was a proper reason to go through all those responsible things that require keeping contact with friends
I read that you’ve been in Mexico, sounds super, I’m still in Amsterdam but working in Helsinki pretty often and you should visit or alternatively still live in Vancouver so I can visit you or, as yet another alternative, visit anywhere else in Europe and I will TRACK YOU DOWN.
Miss ya
–andy
Comment by http://termie.myopenid.com/ — June 30, 2007 @ 3:29 am
Very belatedly, but… You must check out the latest food club Zingerman’s has added to its lineup: The Bacon Club!
http://www.zingermans.com/Product.pasp?Category=&ProductID=G%2DBAC
They send you a different hunk of gourmet bacon every month. I actually flagged the page when I got their latest catalog. Mmm, bacon.
Comment by http://openid.sun.com/xmlgrrl — September 18, 2007 @ 7:01 pm