5 things to eat on National Maple Syrup Day

Sweet! National Maple Syrup Days are Saturday and Sunday; maybe you should celebrate with one of these.

Maple Manhattan

Alder & Birch, The Orleans

Crown Royal Maple gets even more flavor from maple syrup and a candied strip of maple bacon, $10, or $7 during Social Hour from 4 to 6 p.m. daily.

Pork belly rice bowl

Hussong’s Cantina, Boca Park

Seared pork belly and a radicchio-cabbage mix are laced with maple-bacon aioli and chicharrones over cilantro-lime rice or brown rice and borracho pinto beans or black beans, $9.95.

Bastille Day

Vintner Grill

Maple syrup contributes its sweetness to Bastille French whiskey, Bitter Truth Pimento Dram, fresh lemon juice and lemon bitters, $12.

Charred Brussels sprouts

Harvest, Bellagio

Regionally grown Brussels sprouts are cooked with Blis Bourbon Maple Syrup, mustard seeds and bourbon soy, $12.

Wood & Fire

Bazaar Meat, SLS Las Vegas

Don Julio Reposado tequila and Benedictine are blended with maple, chocolate bitters with cedar and smoke, $18.

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