Screen Door Praline Bacon (Dose of Vitamin P)

Bacon Portland

Pralines are the powerfully sweet confections crafted from pecans, sugar, butter and cream. They’re practically candy gospel in New Orleans, and almost always too sweet for my taste. However, Screen Door, a Southern restaurant from David Mouton and wife Nicole that’s wildly popular at brunch, expertly melds the concept with bacon in Portland. The combination seemed grotesque, but actually works as an indulgent side dish or dessert.

Strips of Screen Door Praline Bacon ($4.75) come coated with crushed pecans, cayenne, and brown sugar. The meaty, lacquered strips of cured pork belly strike the right balance of sweet and savory, with textural contrast that’s truly nutty on many levels.

Screen Door is also a restaurant that serves breakfast corndogs and a pile of chicken and waffles so imposing that it would probably make small dogs run for cover, so it’s no surprise they’d deliver such an over the top side dish, and bacon’s just the vessel to do it.

Dose of Vitamin P spotlights my favorite pork dish from the previous week.

Address: 2337 East Burnside Street, Portland, OR 97214
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