Chef Fabienne Escoffier turns out a rich beef stew studded with smoked bacon, pearl onions and braised mushrooms enrobed in a chestnut-colored sauce whose flavor hints at the full-bodied Burgundy she cooks with.

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He stopped using jelly on his peanut-butter biscuits to decrease sugar content and started making a blander veal stock for some dishes, including Rover Easy, which has scrambled eggs with applewood smoked bacon bits.

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This larger space has a ludicrous amount of craft beers on tap, along with the same burger that made them famous, an applewood-smoked bacon compote covered, maytag blue and gruyere cheese smothered, caramelized onions, and arugula-topped flavour bomb.

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The list of things uncommon to the Vegas buffet goes on and on, from hand-carved, house smoked slab bacon to lemongrass marinated steamed cod to house-made pork rillettes, a rustic version of pate.

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Start with savouries such as smoked pastrami salmon sticks or peanut butter maple bacon dates at the upstairs Treehouse Bar, then descend to dine on specialties such as potted duck and foie gras served in a jar, pork chops served with cumin bacon and mango chutney, or dry-aged steaks.

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This understated but trendy eatery will serve you galettes stuffed with smoked salmon, brie or gut-busting tartiflette (potatoes, cream, bacon and Reblochon cheese).

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