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Oysters and clams at Navy Blue. The seafood restaurant is among the participants in this year’s Houston Restaurant Weeks.<\/p>\n
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More than 200 restaurants will serve multi-course specials as a fundraiser for the Houston Food Bank during this year’s Houston Restaurant Weeks.<\/p>\n
The annual event, which runs Aug. 1 to Sept. 7 this year, is the food bank\u2019s biggest annual fundraiser. It also encourages diners to support local restaurants during traditionally slow months.<\/p>\n
MORE FOOD NEWS:\u00a0Austin Simmons’ newest steakhouse, Charolais, is now open. Here\u2019s what to know<\/a><\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The lineup of about 230 restaurants announced Wednesday morning includes restaurants like Aaron Bludorn\u2019s seafood spot Navy Blue, the rustic Heights Italian restaurant\u00a0Coltivare, globally inspired Indian restaurant Kitchen Rumors and the Malaysian street food specialist Phat Eatery. Restaurants can still sign up, though, and a news release said more than 350 are expected to participate in total.<\/p>\n Katie Stone, who leads the event, said that HRW is especially needed now, as diners eat out and drink less<\/a>. Many restaurants have told her 2026 sits among their toughest years on record<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHRW is once again coming at a time where they really, really, really need it,\u201d Stone said of restaurants. \u201cAnd so they\u2019re embracing it. They\u2019re going all in with their menus, and then it\u2019s the diners that benefit, because they see the value in the menus.\u201d<\/p>\n Classic Banana’s Foster dessert at Brennan’s of Houston, another Houston Restaurant Weeks participant.<\/p>\n Brennan’s of Houston<\/p>\n Every restaurant that participates offers multi-course meals at a fixed price, normally with a few options of dishes for diners to choose from. Two-course brunches and lunches cost $25 a person. Three-course dinners go for either $39 or $55, depending on the menu a restaurant settles on.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n At Rainbow Lodge, for instance, you could get a dinner of cast-iron Texas quail, agnolotti with English peas and croissant bread pudding for $55. At Michelin-starred Spanish restaurant BCN Taste & Tradition, you could order a $25 brunch of suckling\u00a0Iberico pig and chocolate cake with raspberry sorbet. And at the Portuguese spot Oporto Fooding House & Wine, ceviche do mar and Goan-spiced\u00a0pork curry will run you $25 for lunch.<\/p>\n All the participating establishments begin by giving $1,000 as a baseline, Stone said. Then, for every lunch or brunch sold, restaurants agree to donate an additional $1. Each $39 dinner includes a $3 donation, and $55 dinners include a $5 donation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n