Food Porn: AOC's Bacon-wrapped Dates

by Sarah J. Gim (Subscribe to Sarah J. Gim's posts)
Posted Jan 5th 2006 12:25PM
Filed under: Wine, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, West Coast, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Cheese, Fruit, Pork, Raves & Reviews, Roasting

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AOC Wine Bar, Los Angeles - bacon-wrapped dates

AOC is a restaurant that had been on my "To-Dine" list from the moment opened in LA. However, it took me this long to finally get over there. The restaurant has a nice setup with bar-seating at either the wine bar or the cheese bar, and regular seating in a fairly small dining room. I enjoyed the meal, I enjoyed the cheese, and I enjoyed the wine. But the thing that made my head spin faster than the Rock Steady Crew was the tiny silver saucer of bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with parmesan cheese. Now that I'm comfortbale with bacon-wrapping, I want to make these at home.

Tags: bacon, dates, food, food and drink, food and wine, FoodAndWine, los angeles, parmesan, wine, wine bar

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1-05-2006 @ 2:37PM

Kitty said...

These are my absolute favorite :)
Gourmet published the actual recipe Suzanne uses just a couple of months ago - I make these all the time and they always elicit the aformentioned head-spinning.
Here's a link to the recipe:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/232778
Enjoy!
poetkitty

1-05-2006 @ 4:37PM

Chris said...

The link is no good -> (but damn the dates sound awesome, I would love to surprise my wife with those)

1-05-2006 @ 7:51PM

Kevin said...

We tried some of these (minus the parmesan cheese though) at a tapas restaurant outside of Chicago. Amazing! Sweet, salty, and um... well... bacon. You just can't go wrong.

1-06-2006 @ 1:08AM

Adam Fields said...

I've had these at a few places in NYC. They have great ones at Sala.

I like to make them filled with goat cheese and a whole roasted almond in the middle.

1-06-2006 @ 1:20AM

sarah said...

the almond in the middle sounds awesome

i kinda think that using blue cheese would be good, too, something really strong to offset the uber-sticky sweetness of the dates.

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