Edible Austin Beer And Bacon Festival

So, first things first, it’s a *beer* and *bacon* festival. It’s hard to get better than that, but the food was amazing and while the beer didn’t quite live up to the food, it was a pretty good cross section of the Austin beer scene.
I think the best thing I had was a bacon and beer sausage on a pretzel crisp accompanied by a beer infused goat cheese from Frank. I will definitely be going there to figure out what else they do.
Hoover Cooking had a phenomenal roasted pork belly over grits with what I think was a honey sauce. There were 3 different bacon-​wrapped figs and I liked Swift’s Attic for the most interesting which was super peppery and Bacon (the restaurant) for the best traditional one even if it was saltier than I would have liked.
My one regret is that I didn’t take more and better notes to know where to go after the event. I’m going to have to poke around at the listed restaurants’ menus to see what jogs my memory.
For reference, these were the participating restaurants:
Abel’s North Grill and Tap House
Amy’s Ice Cream
Bacon
Barlata
Celtic Seafare
Cipollina
Frank
Greenhouse Craft Food
Hillside Farmacy/​Eden East
Hoover’s
Kerbey Lane
Lamberts
Lenoir
Liberty Tavern
Little Barrel and Brown
Micklethwait BBQ
Noble Pig
NO VA Kitchen & Bar
OMG Cheesecakery
Otto’s German Bistro
Pink Avocado
Salt & Time
Searsucker
Snack Bar
Swift’s Attic
The Bonneville
The Seedling Truck
The Turtle Restaurant
TRACE
St. Phillip
Zed’s
And these were the participating breweries:
Circle Brewing Co.
Independence Brewing Co.
Infamous Brewing Co.
Pedernales Brewing Company
Real Ale Brewing Company
Rogness Brewing Company
Shiner Brewery
St. Arnold Brewery
South Austin Brewing Co.