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Bacon Maple Bar is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Portland and San Luis Obispo. Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of crisp bacon.
Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of crisp bacon. The Voodoo Doughnut signature since 2003, on the menu at the Old Town shop daily.
Voodoo Doughnut opened in 2003 in a Portland storefront between two Old Town nightclubs. Co-founders Kenneth Pogson and Tres Shannon experimented with absurdity from the start, and the bacon maple bar (yeast bar, maple glaze, two crisp bacon strips) became the photograph that travelled. It crossed national TV in 2006 on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, and it has been the bestselling Voodoo doughnut every year since. Portland claims it the way Chicago claims the slice. The pairing is older than the doughnut, with maple-and-bacon a southern brunch staple, but Voodoo gave it a wax-paper handle and a $5 price.
Where to eat in Portland:
Where to eat Bacon Maple Bar in Portland: the editor picks
A raised doughnut bar under maple icing and crumbled bacon, the sweet-salty flagship of California's donut counters. In San Luis Obispo it is a 03:00 institution at 24-hour SloDoCo.
Maple bars are an old West Coast doughnut-case staple, and the bacon-topped version spread through California's independent shops in the late 2000s as the salty-sweet order that separated crafty counters from supermarket boxes. SloDoCo, San Luis Obispo's 24-hour doughnut company by the Cal Poly campus, made the bacon-glazed bar part of its round-the-clock repertoire of roughly 100 varieties, and the local tourism board itself points night owls to it.
Where to eat in San Luis Obispo:
Where to eat Bacon maple bar in San Luis Obispo: the editor picks
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