It’s Friday, and another episode of Bacon Quest – the search for Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon has been unleashed on the universe. You can download the original PDF HERE (or grab the full newspaper HERE,) or just keep reading (the unrated version) below.

Bacon Quest – the search for Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon.

Episode 4 – The Famous Bacon

In Vancouver, especially during times like film fest, you’ll likely meet someone famous.

Step onto the red carpet with a camera and it’s possible to make even Henry Winkler go “aaaay!”

In my days as a photojournalist, I’ve met a ton of famous people, but I’ve never met famous bacon before.

Or at least, I haven’t been alerted to the fact that I’d be meeting famous bacon… up until now.

At the suggestion of a friend, I learned that there was famous bacon that I could visit on the North Shore at this place called Tomahawk Barbeque.

Tomahawk, a restaurant that’s been in North Vancouver for over a bazillion years (since 1926 as the menu proclaims,) serves up bacon known as Yukon style bacon.

Famous in its own right, not because Bryan Adams was once a dishwasher there, but because it’s THAT good.; double smoked in an old European wood smokehouse setting, Yukon bacon is sold exclusively to the restaurant.

The result? Such menu items as the Yukon-style Bacon & Eggs featuring five generous slices of Yukon-style bacon, two country-style eggs served fried or scrambled, a heaping portion of golden-griddled hash brown potatoes, and two thick slices of Klondike toast, or the mixed grill that I enjoyed that day, nine generous slices of Yukon style bacon, two country fresh eggs, fried or scrambled, two slices of Klondike toast, ORGANIC hamburger patty, aged cheddar cheese, wiener, onions and fresh sautéed mushrooms, all on a 14″ platter.

Sumptuous to say the least and definitely worthy of stardom.

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Raj Taneja is part technologist, part entrepreneur, part social media thought leader and part foodie. He runs urbanmixer.com, publishes a miscellany of his musings at raj.jp.