Call it the year of the pig. Pork is the most popular protein from coast to coast, and on some restaurant menus you'll find it in unexpected places.
Drink: The Double Down Saloon, which has locations in Las Vegas and New York, offers the Bacon Bloody, made with bacon-infused vodka and a garnish of—what else?—bacon.Appetizer: Gordon Ramsay’s reinvented BLT at the London Bar combines bacon and onion cream with chilled lettuce velouté and tomato gelée.
Entrée: Chef Homaro Cantu at Chicago’s Moto garnishes braised pork with mango and mole salsa.
Dessert: Chef Greggory Hill at Washington’s David Greggory Restau Lounge puts together special bacon s’mores: sheets of phyllo interspersed with diced bacon and almonds atop a marshmallow and an oozing chocolate cake that also contains small pieces of smoky bacon.
Drink: The Double Down Saloon, which has locations in Las Vegas and New York, offers the Bacon Bloody, made with bacon-infused vodka and a garnish of—what else?—bacon.Appetizer: Gordon Ramsay’s reinvented BLT at the London Bar combines bacon and onion cream with chilled lettuce velouté and tomato gelée.
Entrée: Chef Homaro Cantu at Chicago’s Moto garnishes braised pork with mango and mole salsa.
Dessert: Chef Greggory Hill at Washington’s David Greggory Restau Lounge puts together special bacon s’mores: sheets of phyllo interspersed with diced bacon and almonds atop a marshmallow and an oozing chocolate cake that also contains small pieces of smoky bacon.
Double Down Saloon's Bacon Bloody
Photo: Mark T. Zeilman
The Double Down Saloon makes its Bacon Bloody with bacon-infused vodka.
Photo: Mark T. Zeilman
The reinvented BLT at the London Bar includes bacon and onion cream.
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Moto's avant-garde braised pork with mango and mole salsa.
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Bacon s’mores from David Greggory Restau Lounge.
Photo: Dottie Guy
