Pros:

Bacon, great service, breakfast all day, location, theme, atmosphere, great job with social networking

Cons:

Parking is slight in the back lot and minimal on the street.

Suggestions:

Rumblings of a Sunday brunch? Please add the information to the website.

It’s all about the feast, not the famine!

There was a time when Breakfast In Austin didn’t eat bacon. In fact, I made it a personal mission to convert those I knew from bacon to the leaner turkey bacon. Yes, I was one of those passionate turkey bacon lovers.

I should say that I had a lot of success. My friends would go so far as to suggest that Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich pay me a conversion fee. Seriously, I would’ve made bank!

Suffice it to say, turkey bacon took a passenger seat, and though I still enjoy it, bacon is part of my life. 

We all know bacon comes from the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked and usually sliced and fried for food. Bacon is greasy, fatty and full of sodium. It’s a tasty mess! It certainly makes you wonder why anyone would give up the swine.

This leads me to introduce one of Austin’s newest finds. Any guesses on the name? Yep – it’s Bacon! Makin’ Bacon, Spankin’ Bacon, Awaken with Bacon. Aside from the logical rhyming, Bacon is located at the corner of 10th and Lamar in a cute yellow house with signs of the pig. If you were a fan of the now closed Screaming Goat, this is the same location.

Bacon is a venture by Jed Taylor, Zac Bryant, Ryan Reynolds and Reid Reynolds. It offers an infusion of bacon into its meals, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, specialty items, sides and brunch. The only thing it doesn’t seem to have is bacon coffee. 

Bacon has a very clear vision: a bacon selection with a consistent theme. You’ll see a pink pig on the back roof, a bacon door handle, bacon memorabilia, bacon T-shirts for sale, bacon and pig signage and bacon artwork.

Ordering from the Bacon breakfast plates was challenging because everything sounded good. The Broken Yolk BLT had been recommended, and always a sucker for runny eggs, I signed up. This is Bacon’s version of the BLT for $8.95. 

Excited to have a choice between two types of bacon, I opted for the spiced-up Cajun cured with two barely fried eggs, Bibb lettuce, a tomato, house mayo and Texas toast.

The photo doesn’t do this sandwich any justice! It was a tasty, oozing mess, and worth every penny. Apart from the BLT falling apart, I definitely recommend this broken yolk for a first-time Bacon experience.

My friend, Micah, who has been a supporter of Breakfast In Austin, was kind enough to join me for a bit of Nikon snapping. Micah’s the one who keeps me in line and calls me out for not posting reviews. 

Not Micah’s first time to Bacon, he opted for the breakfast special: a Pork Jowl Barbacoa and Bacon Hash with two eggs, yellow pepper sauce and tortilla strips for $8.95.

When I asked Micah for an insightful breakdown, he offered that there was a lot going on with the dish, which always makes me think there’s too much going on with the dish. But Micah assured me this was a good thing – that his pork/bacon/hash mixture was full of flavor and very filling. The presentation was gorgeous!

Breakfast is available all day with a handful of other options, including Chicken & Waffles with two brined and buttermilk-battered, all-natural chicken breast cutlets served on top of a malted vanilla waffle for $9.95. 

For something $2 lighter, try the Bacon Waffle with two thickly cut strips of bacon cooked into a waffle and topped with sliced ‘nanas for $7.95.

If you or your child has a sweet tooth, why not order Bacon’s French Toast with two extra thickly cut slices of locally baked Texas bread dipped in a vanilla batter and griddled for $6.95? 

Finally, if you’re a fan of biscuits and gravy, try Bacon’s spin for only $4.95 with two buttermilk drop biscuits topped with house bacon gravy.

There is no mistakin’ Bacon.

Bacon is located at 900 W. 10th St., Austin, Texas 78703. For more information, call 512-322-9777, visit www.baconaustin.com, look for Bacon on Facebook at www.facebook.com/baconaustin or follow @BaconRestaurant on Twitter.

Breakfast In Austin’s Jennifer Clarke is morning-fare obsessed, easily humored and semi-undercover. Scouring Austin for the best diners, brunch experiences, coffee shops and breakfast tacos, she carries a Nikon in one hand and a fork in the other. For more information, visit http://breakfastinaustin.blogspot.com, or look for Breakfast In Austin on Facebook at www.facebook.com/breakfastinaustin or Twitter (@breakfastaustin).