{"id":407222,"date":"2026-08-15T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407222\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:06:25","slug":"weekend-food-bets-oysters-italian-and-back-to-school-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407222\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Food Bets: Oysters, Italian and Back-to-School Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, 5 to 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2044 East TC Jester<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long Weekend\u2019s throwing a family-friendly party with a kid DJ, petting zoo, mechanical bull and free Underground Creamery ice cream scoops for kids, plus live music. Kids can also order $16 Fish Sticks with schoolhouse tartar sauce and smoked ketchup or $14 Bagel Bites with pepperoni, mozzarella and red sauce. Walk-ins only.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes from an Italian Restaurant at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbludorn.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Bludorn<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, 6 p.m.<br \/>9061 Gaylord<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Memorial favorite becomes an Italian-American neighborhood restaurant for a four-course dinner from chef Aaron Bludorn, featuring antipasti salad, meatballs, chicken and eggplant Parmesan and tiramisu. Tickets are $95, with an optional $50 Italian wine pairing, live piano music and a $55 two-course children\u2019s menu. Reserve via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/r\/bar-bludorn-houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenTable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Okrafest at Historic Galveston Water &amp; Electric Light Community Center<br \/>Saturday, 6 p.m. VIP; 7 p.m. general admission<br \/>715 30th<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okrafestgalveston.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12th annual OkraFest<\/a>, themed \u201cGarden Galactica,\u201d features a hyper-local dinner made with ingredients from Galveston-area farmers and makers, plus craft cocktails, beer and live music. VIP tickets include an oyster bar from Pier 6 Seafood &amp; Oyster Bar. Benefits Groundswell. Tickets start at $125.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Restaurant Weeks<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All weekend<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/houstonrestaurantweeks.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Restaurant Weeks<\/a> returns for its annual month-long dining fundraiser, offering prix fixe menus at more than 200 restaurants benefiting the Houston Food Bank. This year\u2019s menus include $25 brunch and lunch options and $39 or $55 dinner menus, available for dine-in and takeout. Diners can check out longtime favorites like Rainbow Lodge, Hugo\u2019s and Pondicheri, newer names on the scene including Aiko, Bar Xolo, Chardon and Murray\u2019s Pizza &amp; Wine. Since its launch in 2003, Houston Restaurant Weeks has raised more than $18.8 million for the Houston Food Bank, providing more than 56.4 million meals to Houstonians in need.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 5 to 8 p.m.\u00a0 2044 East TC Jester Long Weekend\u2019s throwing a family-friendly party with a kid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,60,1004,6493,64,727,320,226,56,65104,58,57,354,69,35086,74,75],"class_list":["post-407222","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-food-events","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\/407222","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=407222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}