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Houston Restaurant Week is just around the corner and menus for the popular event have finally been posted. Is your favorite restaurant among the participants this year? Probably. Are there some tried-and-true establishments serving up much-adored dishes? You betcha. Are there some exciting new restaurants to try? Definitely.
The annual Houston Restaurant Week is a partnership with the End Hunger Network, a local non-profit devoted to ending hunger in Houston through volunteer-based programs that collect food donations, rescue excess food from restaurants and grocery stores, and make and deliver food to needy people throughout the Houston area. The End Hunger programs serve young children, senior citizens, struggling families and people of all backgrounds who find themselves in need of help getting healthy food by delivering over three million meals annually.
But how does Houston Restaurant Week benefit the End Hunger Network? This is how: restaurants across Houston, from neighborhood, family-oriented places like Hungry's to the high-end old guard like La Colombe d'Or and cutting-edge establishments like VOICE at the Hotel Icon, offer special menus for one week only -- August 11th through 17th -- and for only $35 (excluding beverages and gratuities). Of that, $5 from each meal goes straight to the End Hunger Network. With 52 participating restaurants to choose from this year in all areas of the city (even The Woodlands) -- and with such a reasonable menu price! -- you and your friends should be able to find at least one (and hopefully several) to spend an evening at while helping to end hunger in Houston.
If $5 per meal doesn't sound like a lot to you, think about it this way: if 10 parties of four people ate at each of the 52 restaurants (10 parties per restaurant) in just one night, that would be $10,400 donated to End Hunger. Over all seven nights of Houston Restaurant week, that amount skyrockets to $72,800. And all because you and your friends decided to spend a night out. Now that we've got the math out of the way, want to see the menus?
Each restaurant is serving either a set menu or one that allows you to choose from a variety of appetizers, main courses and desserts to make up your $35 meal. Some are even throwing in a decanter of wine along with your meal, for free! Houstonist is particularly excited to try the menus at *17 at the Alden Hotel (which includes either Alaskan halibut with gypsy peppers, homemade pancetta, white corn pudding or a New York strip with potato purée, sautéed arrow leaf spinach, sauce bordelaise) , Daily Review Cafe (with some of their criminally delicious corn masa spoon bread or oven roasted mushroom ravioli) and Le Mistral, that fetching, newly-refurbished French outpost in west Houston (offering scandalous-sounding dishes like soupe de champignons sauvages et sa crème florette parfumée à l’ail and double côte de porc confite, chutney d’abricots, sauce moutarde à l’ancienne).
When visiting the menu website, you'll see that almost every restaurant has a red "Reserve a Table" button listed next to their menu offerings. We recommend that you use that little button just as soon as you've made up your mind which restaurants to hit, since they fill up quicker than a redneck at a Golden Corral. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Been waiting for the perfect time to try Gravitas? Or the new Americas in The Woodlands? Or The Glass Wall? Or just looking for a nice night out with the knowledge that you're helping your fellow Houstonians? There's no better time than Houston Restaurant Week.
Houston Restaurant Week
August 11th - 17th
$35 per person
www.houstonrestaurantweek.com
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