Tickets Go On Sale For 11th Annual Chicago Baconfest

CHICAGO — Tickets are now on sale for the 11th Annual Baconfest Chicago, which will feature more than 125 local participating restaurants and companies. The event will be held on Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6 at the UIC Dorin Forum, 725 West Roosevelt.

Chefs will hand out creative bacon snacks throughout the festival, and luxury brands, artisan bacon-makers and bacontrepreneurs will display, sample and sell a wide range of bacon products. Mixologists and brewers will hand out bacon-inspired cocktails, beer and wine.

Baconfest will include three sessions, each of which will offer a unique menu of creative bacon dishes and its own lineup of celebrated chefs.

To celebrate special achievement in the bacon arts, Baconfest gives out Golden Rasher Awards, the 'Oscars of the bacon world.' Chefs will compete in two categories: 'Most Creative Use of Bacon' and 'Best Front of House Presentation,' with winners taking home engraved pewter pigs. 'Most Creative Use of Bacon' comes in two flavors: Judges’ Choice, awarded by a panel of handpicked judges from the Chicago food world and People's Choice, selected by Baconfest attendees who vote for their favorite by text message. For the bacon public, a prize is offered for Best Bacon Poem.

As in previous years, the event will support the Greater Chicago Food Depository with a donation from event proceeds, a raffle on site and a food drive at the event. Over its 10 year history, Baconfest has raised more than $440,000 in donations for the area's largest food bank. That amount covers more than 1.3 million meals for hungry people in the Chicago area.

General admission tickets are $85, and offer a three-hour tasting session of their choice with unlimited tastings of creative bacon dishes. VIP tickets, which are $160, give guests an hour of early access to the annual pork-a-palooza. All ticket types (other than Bacon-Only) include seven drink tickets good for beer, wine and cocktails.

New to Baconfest 2019:

90 Miles Cuban Cafe
About Last Knife
Blue Door Kitchen & Garden
Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba!
BRGRBELLY
Concrete Cowboy
Copper Fox Gastropub
Crīo
Drawl Southern Cookhouse & Whiskey
Fig & Olive
Flight Club
Gather
Good Measure
Osteria Bigolaro
NoMI
Pink Taco
Simone’s Bar
Soul Kantina
Steingold’s of Chicago
Swill Inn
Taureaux Tavern
Texican
The Broken Barrel Bar
The Fat Shallot
The Feller
The Royal Grocer & Co.
Vinci

Returning competitors:

312 Chicago
676 Restaurant & Bar
Angry Pig Tavern
Atwood
Autre Monde Café & Spirits
Bangers & Lace – Evanston
Baptiste & Bottle
Bar Roma
Bar Takito
Batter and Berries
BBQ’d Productions, INC
Bistro Campagne
Bliss Culinary Heaven
Candyality
Cantina Laredo
Carnivale Restaurant
Carnivore Inc
CheSa’s Gluten Free Food Truck
Chicago q
City Barbecue
Community Tavern
Cooking Skills Academy
Current Restaurant
Davanti Enoteca
Earl’s Drive Thru BBQ
Edzo’s Burger Shop
Farmhouse Chicago
Firecakes Donuts
Flo & Santos
Flo Cafe & Bar
Fred’s Garage
HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen
Half Day Brewing Company
Half Sour
Hearth Restaurant
Heritage Restaurant and Caviar Bar
Honey Butter Fried Chicken
Imperial Lamian
Italian Village Restaurants
Jam
Jordan’s Food of Distinction
Kaiser Tiger
Kimski
Kitty O’Sheas
Latinicity
Le Bouchon
Links Taproom
Low & Slow BBQ
Market House on the Square
McWethy’s Sports Bar (formerly McQ’s Bar & Grill)
Michael Jordan’s Restaurant
Michael Jordan’s Steak House Chicago
Midnight Mac and Cheeserie
More Cupcakes
N’awlins Edibles Traveling Personal Chef Srvcs
Orso’s Restaurant
Paddy Long’s
Piece Pizzeria
Pinstripes
porkchop
Public House
Rack House Kitchen & Tavern
Roanoke Restaurant
Sheekar Delights
Showplace Icon Lobby Lounge
Smack Dab
Smylie Brothers Brewing Company
Son Of A Butcher
Sparrow Coffee Roastery
State & Lake Chicago Tavern
Steadfast – Ender Oktayuren
Stone Fox – Greg Hageli
Table, Donkey, and Stick
Tap House Grill
“The Ashburn – Loews Chicago O’Hare”
The Dawson
The Dearborn
The Delta
The Duck Inn
The Florentine
The Grill on the Alley
The Heritage
The Radler
The Roaming Hog
The Ruin Daily
The Signature Room at the 95th
Three Floyds Brewpub
Travelle at The Langham
Uncommon Ground
Velvet Taco
Victory Tap
Vie
Whirlyball
WHISK
Wood Fire Counter
World of Whirlpool
Wow Bao
Wrigley BBQ
XO Marshmallow
Yolk

For more information, visit baconfestchicago.com.