Craft brew and bacon aficionados take note: The first annual D.C. Bacon and Beer Festival will take place next month.

On April 12 at Penn Social, the first annual festival—presented by Eat Boston, a Boston-based event dining production company—will feature bacon-inspired dishes and snacks from a variety of local restaurants, as well as craft beers on tap from a host of local and regional breweries. The event will benefit Food & Friends, a D.C.-based organization that provides free, home-delivered meals, groceries, and nutrition counseling to people with life-challenging illnesses.

Participating restaurants include Art & Soul, Bar Pilar and Boundary Road, while DC Brau and Three Stars are on the brewery side. Here’s the full list of participating restaurants and breweries:

Food:

  • 1905 Restaurant

  • Agua 301

  • Art & Soul

  • Bar Charley/Jackie’s

  • Bar Pilar/Cafe Saint Ex

  • Boundary Road

  • Bourbon Steak

  • Chef Geoff’s

  • Kitchen Cray

  • Menu MBK

  • Penn Social

  • Poste

  • The Pig

  • Three Little Pigs

    • Beer:

  • DC Brau

  • Dogfish Head

  • Fordham/Old Dominion

  • Full Tilt

  • Sam Adams

  • Starr Hill

  • Three Stars

  • Union Brewing

    • Tickets for the festival cost $45, while “baller tickets” — which are “exactly like a regular ticket, but it costs a little more and you get to call yourself a baller” — cost $60, a release states.

    Recently, Eat Boston held Bacon and Beer festivals in Philly and Boston, both of which sold out in minutes. So yeah, you might want to jump on tickets if this is something you’re into. They go on sale March 13 at 11 a.m.

    “I’ve been going to D.C. since I was 4 years old and I’ve always loved it,” Eat Boston founder Aaron Cohen said in a release. “More recently, I’ve been loving D.C.’s exciting restaurant scene. So it was obvious where we should host the next Bacon and Beer Festival.”

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