{"id":294356,"date":"2026-05-15T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294356\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:01:10","slug":"weekend-food-bets-mudbugs-margs-and-all-the-greek-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294356\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Food Bets: Mudbugs, Margs and all the Greek Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tHouston Greek Fest at St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church<\/p>\n<p>Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>1100 Eldridge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/houstongreekfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Greek Fest<\/a> returns with three days of Greek food, pastries, live music, traditional dance performances, shopping and church tours. Festivalgoers can expect gyros, souvlaki, loukoumades and other Greek specialties alongside family-friendly activities and cultural programming throughout the weekend. Admission starts at $10, with kids 10 and under free.<\/p>\n<p>Empty Bowls Houston at Silver Street Studios\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>2000 Edwards<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptybowlshouston.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20th annual Empty Bowls Houston<\/a> returns with more than 1,500 handcrafted bowls donated by Houston-area ceramists, woodturners and artists, all benefiting the Houston Food Bank. Bowls start at a $25 donation \u2014 enough to provide 75 meals \u2014 with attendees also receiving a light lunch, water and a sweet treat while supplies last. The fundraiser will feature live artist demonstrations and music throughout the day, helping support an organization that has raised more than $1.2 million for hunger relief through the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Salsa de Mayo Festival at Finca Tres Robles\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 3 to 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5715 Canal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Small Places\u2019 fourth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/smallplaces.org\/salsa-de-mayo-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salsa de Mayo<\/a> celebrates the start of Houston tomato season with a free community festival featuring salsa and vegetable competitions, live music, games and food vendors in the East End farm setting. The event is family-friendly and open to the public, with additional activities including a silent auction and salsa contest featuring local home cooks and growers.<\/p>\n<p>Hot and Buttered Crawfish Collab at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestregardshou.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Regards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 2 p.m. (until sold out)<\/p>\n<p>222 West 11th<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards continues its two-part pop-up with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotandbuttered.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Hot and Buttered<\/a>, serving Cajun crawfish boils and cocktails from opening to closing.\u00a0 Specials include live crawfish by the pound with customizable spice ranging from mild to the signature \u201clip burn\u201d, alongside drinks like a Crawfish Bloody Mary, Frozen Paloma, Blood Orange Margarita and a Berry Spritz.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>318 Gray<\/p>\n<p>Benefiting the Southern Smoke Foundation, Josephine\u2019s hosts another guest chef for its epic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUD-faQDyaI\/?igsh=Z2p5dmpjbTdiNXFh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backyard Boil Series<\/a> \u2013 this time, chef Evan Leroy of Austin\u2019s Lerow &amp; Lewis BBQ. Crawfish will be priced by the pound and guests can secure spots via <a href=\"https:\/\/resy.com\/cities\/houston-tx\/venues\/josephines-gulf-coast-tradition?seats=1&amp;date=2026-05-07\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Resy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Greek Fest at St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,60,1004,6493,64,727,320,226,56,58,57,354,69,35086,74,75],"class_list":["post-294356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-beer","tag-calendar","tag-drink","tag-eat","tag-events","tag-festival","tag-food-and-drink","tag-homepage","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-restaurants","tag-things-to-do","tag-upcoming-events","tag-what-to-do","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}