Cuckoo Callay launches Bacon Brewfest Festival and 12 weeks of the craziest bacon dishes on offer
LEAVE the calorie-counter at home for Cuckoo Callay’s Bacon Brewfest Festival this Saturday. The cafe’s going the full hog with a 12-week menu of the most unbelievable bacon dishes from March 1.
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THE owners and staff at Cuckoo Callay are going full hog with their new special menu in February — with the season of bacon about to hit off in Newtown.
After the success of last year’s bacon festival, the cafe’s co-owner Ibrahim Moubadder said this year there will be a huge launch day event — the Bacon Brewfest at Central Park on Saturday — followed by 12 weeks of bacon (and more bacon) back at the cafe.
Mr Moubadder said that for 12 weeks from March 1, the cafe would be serving it’s new bacon menu and that it would showcase “the craziest dishes you can make with bacon”.
“We’ve looked at serving bacon as many extreme ways as possible, and looking at dishes outside the norm,” he said.
The cafe’s pork-tastic menu will run alongside its seasonal menu, and the Bacon Mac Daddy is a delicious example of an extreme way to serve bacon.
“This dish is really just a twist on a bacon and egg roll,” Mr Moubadder said.
Except the roll is replaced with a toasted croissant, and instead of basic bacon and eggs inside it is stuffed with double smoked bacon, bacon mac’n’cheese, a fried egg and bacony tomato jam.
Don’t judge it until you’ve tried it.
If eating meat isn’t your thing, but you still like the taste of bacon — then the Fooled Pork Burger is a must-try.
It tastes so real that even the most passionate carnivore won’t be able to tell it’s a vegetrain option.
Mr Moubadder said he wanted to include a vegetarian option on the special menu, but also that he wanted to emphasise that Cuckoo sources its produce solely from farms in NSW that engage in sustainable and ethical practice, in an effort to support local pork.
But if you want the real deal, and you’ve got a sweet tooth then you won’t be able to go past the Devil-ish Doughnut. which is house-made bacon and caramel ice cream, double smoked bacon, peanut butter mousse and salted peanut caramel served in a Milk Bar by Cafe Ish cinnamon doughnut.
You haven’t lived until you’ve tried it.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BREWFEST
WHEN: February 27, Midday-6pm (outside) and midday-9pm (inside)
WHERE: Central Park Sydney at 28 Broadway, Chippendale
COST: $25+BF (early bird), $30+BF (general admission), Kids under 12 free
WEBSITE:baconbrewfest.com.au
STALLHOLDERS: 4 Pines Brewing Company, Altitude Tea, Anna Polyviou, Aqua S, Australia Pork, Bacon’s Rebellion, Batch Brewing Company, Beards Meat Beer, Black Market Bacon, Black Star Pastry, Brewristas, Burgers By Josh, Dragonfly Foods, Experimental Spirits Company, Feral Brewing Company, Frank and Blanco, Grumpy Donuts, Little Man Jerk, Mak Mak Macarons, Mr Bao Buns, N2 Extreme Gelato, Octoberfest Hut, Penny’s Crispy Pork Crackling, Pialligo Estate, Rocks Brewing Company, Rowie’s Cakes, Textbook Patisserie, The Pig Baron, The Stinking Bishops Cheese, The Vogue Cafe, Tsuru Food Truck, Two Birds Brewing, Willie Smith’s Organic Cider, and Willie The Boatman
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