They are two elements essential to the human species, without which life as we know it simply could not exist.
No, I don’t mean air and water. I mean bacon and bourbon.
And to celebrate those two most essential (and delicious) elements, Delray Beach is throwing its first annual Bacon & Bourbon Fest. The event takes place right in downtown, on the grounds of the Delray Beach Center for the Arts and Old School Square, March 28 (Saturday) from 2 to 11 p.m. and March 29 (Sunday) from 1 to 6 p.m.
Several local chefs (including 50 Ocean’s Blake Malatesta and DaDa’s Bruce Feingold) will be preparing food-bourbon pairings. There will be a Bourbon Lover’s Brunch at noon on Sunday (sadly, sold out) and a four-course pig roast later that day, plus bourbon tastings, including one featuring the legendary (and virtually impossible to obtain) Pappy Van Winkle, which unsurprisingly is also already sold out.
There will be treats for your ears too, with a roster of blues bands laying down riffs to complement both pig and booze. Among them will be Victor Wainwright, Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues, and Famous Frank and the Nuckelbusters.
For more info and to get tickets, go to delraybaconandbourbonfest.com. Oink. .
