I’m back from an incredible trip to Paris (more on my travels tomorrow), and ready now for New York adventures. In that vein, here’s another dispatch from the shadowy underbelly of the bacon world.

I just had brunch at Traif, a new restaurant in Williamsburg that delights in serving all of Judaism’s forbidden foods. The restaurant casued quite a stir in the religious world when it opened. Though the owners meant no offense with the cheeky name, many found it pretty disrespectful. Sort of sacrilegious? Yes. Delicious? Also yes.

For brunch, there’s a very impressive roster of pork-based dishes, including smoked-miso udonwith pork belly and a sunny egg, bacon egg and cheese sliders, and an awesome black fig, bacon and blue cheese salad with hazelnuts and truffle vinaigrette. In addition, there are sweet dishes like nutella stuffed french toast, shellfishdelights such as Eggs Costanza (scrambled with mascarpone and lobster) and a couple of options that are vegetarian or devoid of traif  to keep the rest of the crowd happy

But the real kicker, the thing that we had been hearing murmurs about, was the dessert. Traif serves the unthinkable: bacon donuts with dulce de leche and coffee ice cream. Honestly, it was good. And for those who like the flavor of rebellion, I’m sure it borders on great.

Living on the edge with bacon donuts.

Traif is a charming restaurant in a funny neighborhood. I think next time, we’ll sit in the beautiful leafy garden out back. I might opt for a strawberry cobbler instead of the donuts, though. Some things are best left to the realm of legends.

Decide for yourself at:

Traif   229 South 4th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211  (347) 844-9578