Yearly from Aug. 1 to Sept. 5., the tip of Labor Day weekend, Houston eating places provide up a number of the greatest offers of the 12 months within the title of charity. Houston Restaurant Weeks — in actuality a complete month — is the most important annual fundraiser for the Houston Meals Financial institution, which in accordance with the Restaurant Week web site is America’s largest. It consists of eating places from The Woodlands all the way down to the seashore in Galveston. Many venues are a brief stroll or drive from campus, and this fundraiser could be an effective way to check out new eating places at barely decreased value. Listed here are a number of the greatest eating places collaborating proper exterior the hedges.
Carrabba’s – The Authentic on Kirby
When the Carrabba household bought their restaurant chain, they saved each of the unique eating places that they nonetheless personal and run to today. The very first Carrabba’s, dubbed “The Authentic,” is a little more upscale than the chain eating places and affords quite a lot of good Italian meals. For Houston Restaurant Weeks, they’re providing a three-course lunch menu for $25 and three-course dinner menu for $39 with pastas, soups, pizzas and extra. Highlights embody the “Shrimp Osiel,” which is fried shrimp and crabmeat in a garlic herb butter sauce served with garlic toast and their “Baked Rigatoni.” For anybody eager to strive the elevated unique of this beloved chain, this month affords the right likelihood to take action.
Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ
This Japanese BBQ restaurant is a brief METRO journey from Rice on the Crimson Line and affords a four-course lunch menu for $25 and a five-course dinner menu for $39 for restaurant week. Steak, ribs and pork stomach are highlights from the menu, which even consists of s’mores and inexperienced tea ice cream as dessert choices. Even higher is the restaurant’s idea of “shared plates” and the open grills at each desk, that means you’ll be able to go together with pals and get tons of fantastic meals to share and prepare dinner collectively. There are a number of different places in Houston which might be additionally collaborating within the occasion, however this one is the closest to campus.
Black Walnut Cafe
Positioned immediately behind Rice campus in Rice Village, Black Walnut Cafe is providing a two-course lunch menu for $25. Notable gadgets embody “Vindaloo Wings,” “Bacon Jam Deviled Eggs” and the “Final Bacon Burger.” This restaurant is part of a series with places all via Houston and Dallas, and a majority of the Houston places are collaborating in Houston Restaurant Weeks.
Traveler’s Desk
This continental restaurant in Montrose has a three-course dinner and to-go choice each for $55 for Houston Restaurant Weeks. It focuses on “curated international delicacies,” with cooks of many backgrounds and specialities coming collectively to serve meals from all around the world. Highlights from their Restaurant Weeks menu embody “Hummus with Lamb Ragu,” “Jungle Curry” and “Banana Leaf Snapper.” The venue itself is price seeing, and was even featured in “Architectural Digest” for its considerate structure and travel-themed decor.
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Downtown Aquarium Houston
Although a bit additional away from Rice in Downtown Houston, this venue combines meals with the expertise of being surrounded by a whole lot of various species of aquatic life swimming by in floor-to-ceiling tanks. The aquarium is providing a four-course dinner menu for $55 for Restaurant Weeks — highlights embody a “Chimichurri Steak” and much and many seafood (sarcastically). This “dinner and a present,” if you’ll, is near the theatre district of downtown, and the aquarium itself is a good tour for these seeking to eat whereas exploring Houston’s aquatic points of interest.
