Sacramento Bacon Fest celebrates all things bacon, from pork to Kevin
Sacramento is celebrating the art of pigging out this week.
The annual Sacramento Bacon Fest returned Wednesday for its 14th iteration. Bacon-themed events on Wednesday through Saturday will lead up to the marquee event on Sunday: The Guido Cup, a cooking challenge named for festival co-founder Brian Guido.
This year’s Guido Cup will have eight Sacramento-area chefs face off to establish who is top dog ... or hog. Attendees will get the opportunity to sample each competitor’s bacon-centered dish and vote on the winner.
Last year’s champion, Jim Denny’s N’Gina Saran, is competing to defend her title against chefs from some of Sacramento’s top restaurants, including Camden Spit & Larder, Tank House BBQ & Bar and 7th Street Standard.
Riverdog Farm, located in Guinda 30 miles northwest of Woodland, is supplying each chef with half of a free-range, pasture-raised hog for their competition dish, according to Ryan Donahue, a spokesperson for the event.
The five-day festival kicked off with an opening party at the Grange Restaurant’s Scandal Bar in The Citizen Hotel on Wednesday evening, with pork-based small bites from Grange chef Dane Blom.
Nitty’s Cider will host a skee-ball tourney in honor of Bacon Fest on Thursday, with two tickets to the Guido Cup on the line for the winners, and the Torch Club will have bands playing Kevin Bacon film soundtracks on Friday night.
The Sacramento Bacon Fest grand finale Guido Cup is 2-8 p.m. Sunday at Mulvaney’s B&L in midtown. Tickets for the cooking challenge are $70 per person and include three drinks on top of the competition samples and other bites from Mulvaney’s, according to the organizers.
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