Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings:
In honor of Pride Month, on Monday, June 30, Home Slice Pizza will donate 10 percent of all sales— including food, drinks, merchandise, and online orders — across all Austin and Houston locations to support the Austin Galano Club and Houston’s Montrose Center.
On Wednesday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m., Michelin-starred Alain Verzeroli teams up with Le Jardinier’s chef Felipe Botero for a five-course dinner celebrating summer’s bold flavors at Le Jardinier, 5500 Main. Highlights include Texas corn velouté, lobster summer salad, seabass, beef Wellington, and a verbena custard dessert. Tickets are $195, with an optional $125 wine pairing. Reserve on OpenTable or Resy.
Kolache Factory is kicking off its 2025 Create a Kolache Contest, running from July 4 to August 1. Fans can submit their most creative kolache ideas online for a chance to win free kolaches for a year. Five finalists will be chosen, with public voting from August 8 to 18. The winner, announced August 28, will have their flavor featured in stores nationwide.
Relish Restaurant & Bar, 2810 Westheimer, 12850 Memorial, is serving a three-course family-style Fried Chicken Supper for four for $95 to mark National Fried Chicken Day on Sunday, July 6. Available for dine-in and to-go Sundays through Thursdays at Town & Country and Mondays through Thursdays at River Oaks, starting at 5:30 p.m., the meal includes a green garden salad, eight pieces of crispy fried chicken, four biscuits with herb butter and hot honey, two sides of choice and a warm blueberry buckle cream cake. Guests can also enjoy half-priced select bubbles with the supper purchase.
Empty Bowls Houston is hosting a Summer Pop-Up at Saint Arnold Brewery, 2000 Lyons, on Saturday, July 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Folks can support the Houston Food Bank and shop handmade, donated bowls by local artists ($10 & $25) with all proceeds feeding hungry Houstonians. Watch live pottery demos and enjoy Saint Arnold’s beer garden—where menu purchases will be rounded up to benefit the cause.
Guests are invited to a Tour de France Wine Pairing Dinner at Cocody, 1971 West Gray, on Thursday, July 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Each course of the immersive five-course dinner inspired pays tribute to a region along the race route and is thoughtfully paired with French wines, curated in partnership with French Country Wines. Tickets are $120 and seating is limited.