Bacon Maple Bar appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Bacon Maple Bar · Portland
Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of bacon. Sweet, salty, fatty, fried.
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:
- Voodoo Doughnut Old Town
- Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai