Bacon Fest 2025

Bacon Fest 2025: Everything Goes Better with Bacon

What’s cookin’ this summer at Fraze? Why? Only the greatest food item on planet Earth - BACON

Saturday, August 2 from 4pm-10pm

Under the hot summer sun, savor the flavor of breakfast’s favorite side item.  The event commemorating pork’s best side is back with more food and dishes that will make you want to kick off the front door. Whether you’re in the crispy bacon or chewy bacon camp, you’ll love this summer festival.  

🧨 We’re talkin’ bacon-wrapped, bacon-stuffed, bacon-drizzled EVERYTHING:

🥟 Bacon Empanadas

🍫 Chocolate-Covered Bacon

🌭 Bacon-Wrapped Corndogs

🧁 Bacon Funnel Cakes

😵 And honestly, bacon things we didn’t even know were legal.

Live Entertainment

Enjoy FREE music all festival long on the Lincoln Park stage:

4:00 PM: The Wet Bandits are the most unique and entertaining ’90s party band, bringing pop, rock, hip-hop, and country. The Wet Bandits are bringing you all the tunes that’ll get you singing and dancing.

6:00 PM Amy Newhart Band – Amy is wildfire fun on stage with her contagious energy and smile. She considers her sound modern honky tonk. She wants her songs to make you laugh, smile, dance and occasionally wipe a tear from your eye.

8:00 PM The Big Badd – Formed in 2016, our full ensemble features multiple vocalists, a trio of horns, and a stellar rhythm section. The Big Badd blends pop, rock, funk, and jazz influences.

Participating Restaurants & Food Trucks

Baconlicous delights available last year included everything from bacon-wrapped smoked turkey legs and glazed bacon skewers to BLT grilled cheese, bacon garlic toast, pork belly gyros, candied bacon and chocolate covered bacon pretzels.  

Discover the bacon-inspired dishes from these local restaurants and food trucks:

🍔 Amber Rose Restaurant – Bacon Smashburgers + Bacon Mac & Cheese

🍩 Batter Up Funnel Cakes – Bacon Funnel Cakes + deep-fried goodness

🌭 Dawghouse – BLT Dog, Pineapple Bacon BBQ Dog, Kansas City Dog & more

🔥 Dayton Barbecue Company – Smoked Bacon + Bacon Mac & Cheese

🌽 Eddie’s Roasted Corn – Fresh corn with bacon salt (YES.)

🥟 El Meson – The legendary Bacon Empanadas are BACK

🍭 Frios Gourmet Pops – Bacon & Coffee Espresso Pop + more frozen fun

🍩 Home Cooked Vibes – BLT & Monte Crisco Egg Rolls + Cinnamon Honey Bacon Donuts

🍔 Lilia's Outside Cafe – Bacon Cheeseburgers, Chicken Bacon Tacos, Award-Winning Bacon Fries & even a Bacon Cobb Salad for the “healthy” crowd

🥢 Little Boijon Asian Cuisine – Bacon Egg Rolls and more crispy creations

🍚 Louisiana Passion Catering – Bacon Jambalaya that'll make your soul dance

🔥 Renny Henny’s Wings – Bacon Fries + their mouthwatering wings

🧇 Tasty Bacon – Millionaire Bacon Stuffed Waffles with Hot Honey + a Bacon Corn Dog that dreams are made of

🥪 1776 Grill – The OG: Bacon-Stuffed Garlic Toast Grilled Cheese (and YES, it's award-winning)

🍦 Whit’s Frozen Custard – Maple Bacon Donut & Bourbon Bacon frozen custard (cold, creamy, and unreasonably good)

🍫 Sweet-umms – Chocolate Covered Bacon, Bacon Banana Pudding, AND Bacon Sweet Potato Dream Cake – because your dessert should come with a side of bacon too

Photos: Bacon Fest 2025

Amber Rose - Bacon Fest

Amber Rose - Bacon Fest

Batter Up Funnel Cakes - Bacon Fest

1776 Grill bacon stuffed grilled cheese - Bacon Fest
Original, Award Winning, Bacon Stuffed Garlic Toast Grilled Cheese! That’s it…that’s the menu!

Lilia's Outside Cafe - Bacon Fest

Lilia's Outside Cafe - Bacon Fest

Lilia's Outside Cafe - Bacon Fest

Lilia's Outside Cafe - Bacon Fest

Bacon Fest 2025 - Lilia's Outside Cafe

Bacon Fest - Sweet-umms Pineapple & Bacon Upside Down Cake
Pineapple, Bacon, and BOURBON Upside Down Cake – bold, boozy, and baked with attitude.

Bacon Fest - Sweet-umms The Best Damn Sweet Potato & Bacon Dream Cake
It’s sweet, it’s salty, it’s basically dessert nirvana.

Crackd Potatoes - Tasty Bacon's Food Truck

Big Patty - Tasty Bacon's Food Truck

Tasty Way Corn Dog - Tasty Bacon's Food Truck

Tasty Bacon's Menu - Bacon Fest

Bacon Fest - Whit's Centerville

Bacon Fest - Whit's Centerville

Home Cooked Vibes - BLT Bacon Monte Cristo Eggrolls
Also look for our Bacon Caesar Sprouts and Bacon Cinnamon Roll Donuts!

Links & Tags

Fraze Pavilion

Bacon Fest 2025 is taking place at Fraze Pavilion, which is located at 695 Lincoln Park Boulevard in Kettering. Fraze Pavilion - Fraze Pavilion is southwest Ohio’s premiere neighborhood outdoor entertainment venue, where we celebrate “Summer’s Best Live Music Under the Stars” ever since Marvin Hamlisch christened the 4300-seat amphitheater in 1991

Miami Valley Restaurant Association.

Miami Valley Restaurant Association - The Miami Valley Restaurant Association is a non-profit organization relentlessly dedicated to supporting and promoting our local restaurants.