What is Baconfest Chicago?
Baconfest Chicago is a full day celebration of bacon: a Fest to end all Fests. Baconfest’s roster of bacon-inspired activities, bacon-foods, and bacon-spirits comprise the greatest single culinary and cultural festival ever dedicated to Bacon and Bacon only. We estimate that one thousand bacon aficionados will visit the Fest, housed in a converted vintage Masonic Hall in Chicago’s historic Logan Square district. At the Bacon Expo, they’ll meet artisan bacon-makers and bacontrepreneurs and sample a wide spectrum of local craft bacons and bacon-related products. In the Bacon Café, Bar & Cocktail Lounge, local restaurants will serve bacon-based snacks; local bakeries will concoct bacon-sweets; local bars will serve up bacon cocktails and refreshing beer. Meanwhile, on-stage, local artists, poets, musicians and theater-makers will join with bacon experts from all around the region during the Bacon Cultural Explosion. The highlight of the event: the Golden Rashers, the Oscars of the bacon w
