{"id":126067,"date":"2025-08-07T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126067\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:16:13","slug":"things-to-do-upcoming-food-drink-events-in-houston-this-summer-2025-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126067\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Do: Upcoming Food &#038; Drink Events in Houston this Summer 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          Mark your calendars, because you don\u2019t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.junbykin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">J\u016aN<\/a>, 420 East 20th, will spotlight Buboy\u2014the much-anticipated concept from &#8220;Top Chef: Destination Canada&#8221; winner Chef Tristen Epps\u2014with a special tasting experience from Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10. Guests can enjoy a five-course menu that fuses contemporary Afro-Caribbean flavors with cutting-edge fine dining techniques, offering a first taste of what\u2019s to come. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/booking\/experiences-availability?rid=1250380&amp;restref=1250380&amp;experienceId=516405&amp;utm_source=external&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seats<\/a> are $135 per person, with an optional $65 wine pairing available ($200 with pairing). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucchese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lucchese Bootmaker<\/a> is teaming up with <a href=\"https:\/\/truthbbq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Truth BBQ<\/a> for a unique Smoke &amp; Style Shopping Event, held at  <b>Lucchese Houston<\/b>, 4051 Westheimer, on Friday, August 8 from 1 to 6 p.m. The high-energy tailgate celebrates ten years of Truth BBQ and the start of football season with award-winning bbq and chilled Rose Gold Ros\u00e9, boot shopping, and live music by Keller Cox. There is no cover to attend. <\/p>\n<p>Join CocuSocial at Lyric Market, 411 Smith, on Thursday, August 14 at 6:30 p.m. for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cocusocial.com\/newevent\/Houston_Classic-Handmade-Pasta_Aug-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hands-on pasta-making class<\/a>. You\u2019ll craft fresh pappardelle and linguini from scratch, topped with a zesty handmade pesto for $54 per person. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, August 17, <b>Truth BBQ<\/b>  and <b>Milton\u2019s<\/b> are joining for a one-night-only, family-style dinner benefitting Kerr County flood victims, taking place at <b>Truth BBQ<\/b>, 110 South Heights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/booking\/experiences-availability?rid=1387114&amp;restref=1387114&amp;experienceId=518058&amp;utm_source=external&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=shared&amp;dateTime=2025-08-17T19%3A00%3A00&amp;partySize=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tickets<\/a> come in groups of four or six at $150 per person. Expect a multi-course menu blending legendary Central Texas barbecue with refined Italian cooking \u2014 short rib lasagna, agrodolce pork ribs with peaches, ribeye with Italian chimichurri and Banana Tiramisu for dessert. All profits will benefit the Texas Hospitality Collective, supporting flood recovery efforts in Kerr County. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loroeats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loro Asian Smokehouse &amp; Bar<\/a> is serving up a week of tasty back-to-school deals during its \u201cDazed and Delicious\u201d celebration, offered at both the Heights and Kirby locations from Monday, August 18 to Sunday, August 24. Each day brings new, no-fuss specials for everyone easing into the school year, from $3 pulled pork sandwiches and $7 smoked wings to $6 slushee flights and $5 yuzu spritzes.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark your calendars, because you don\u2019t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: J\u016aN, 420 East 20th,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[1444,28031,9729,16560,2879,4345,9733,28998,358,16559,3187,16558,9963],"class_list":{"0":"post-126067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-1444","9":"tag-august","10":"tag-drink","11":"tag-eat","12":"tag-events","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-restaurant-news","15":"tag-specials-summer","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-things-to-do-this-month","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-upcoming-events-in-houston","20":"tag-wine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}