What to Eat and Drink This Weekend: Greek Fest, Malai Pop-up and a Wine Festival

The State Honest of Texas continues to be rolling. With the temperatures in respectable territory, it is a good time to get out and revel in a pageant or two. And there are lots of.

Mid-Cities Greek Fest
St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
303 Cullum Drive, Euless
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 14, 15 and 16
This Greek pageant has been round for greater than 30 years. All of the meals is home made in accordance with lengthy household traditions. Attempt the Athenian Platter ($23) with Greek rooster, rice pilaf, two dolmathes, spanakopita, tiropita, Greek salad and pita bread. Or the Santorini Platter ($25) with fish, or a Zorba Platter ($27) with lamb. There are additionally a la carte choices, like hummus and pastitsio, plus sweets and gyros. There’s loads to eat, is what we’re getting at. Go hungry. And go to the web site for a full schedule of occasions. Admission and parking are free. The Greek financial institution LAAND will present dwell music all weekend so you may showcase your fancy Greek dancing abilities.

Attalie Visitor Chef Dinner for Genesis Girls’s Shelter
Attalie at The Alternate, 211 S. Akard St. (Downtown Dallas)
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15
Native chef and James Beard nominee Misti Norris and visitor chef Paul Liebrant will co-host a dinner on Friday night time at 7 p.m. at Attalie at The Alternate. Then on Saturday, Josh Harmon steps in, together with Leibrant, for a second dinner. All proceeds will go to the Genesis Girls’s Shelter. Tickets for each Friday and Saturday are $160 every, plus a further $60 for a customized beverage pairing. Learn extra concerning the occasion right here.

Reside Music on the Boardwalk
Granite Park, 5880 State Freeway 121, Plano
6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14
The Boardwalk at Granite Park is a group of eating places round a big pond that may be a pleasant setting for a dinner out, particularly when the climate is cooperative. Like now. Native artists are slated to carry out all through October. This Friday, search for music from Charity Younger, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eating places alongside the boardwalk embody the Suburban Yacht Membership, Blue Mesa Grill, Union Bear, The Biscuit Bar, Golden Boy Espresso and Wine Bar, Fork and Hearth, and Chip’s Outdated Long-established Hamburgers. All of those spots have giant patios to benefit from the music. Not a foul solution to wind down the week.

Harvest Fest
Huffhines Park, 1500 Apollo Street, Richardson
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16
The Metropolis of Richardson hosts its forty sixth annual Harvest Fest on Saturday and Sunday at Huffhines Park on Apollo Street. There can be crafts, dwell music, a giant pumpkin patch and all of the requisite household actions. Plus, a number of meals like Leo’s Greek Meals, Tounge in Cheek Ice Cream, TJ’s Dawg Home and Mrs. Energetic’s dwelling cooking, all to be washed down with craft beer. And since it is truthful season, they’re going to even have corndogs, lemonade and kettle corn. Admission is free.

Bia Hoi Pop-Up
Malai Kitchen, 3699 McKinney Ave. (West Village)
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15
Malai Kitchen, the ever-popular native Thai and Vietnamese restaurant (we just lately wrote about co-owner Yasmine Wages), will host its annual Hanoi-style avenue meals pop-up this Saturday. They will serve Malai’s signature Vietnamese beer (sure, they brew their very own beer), Bia Hoi, which can go for $1 a pint. And for the total genuine expertise, they’re going to have tiny plastic stools and tables to take a seat at. Celebration at Malai. See y’all there.

McKinney Wine & Music Pageant
Towne Lake, 1405 Wilson Creek Parkway, McKinney
Midday – 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15
The sixth Annual McKinney Wine and Music Pageant will showcase 30 award-winning wineries, 10 eating places and 4 bands. You should buy a meals go for $35, which permits bites in any respect the eating places from midday to 4 p.m. And wine-tasting tickets ($40) will get you 20 one-ounce tastings. Purchase a combo meals and wine tasting go for $70 and get 20 sips and tastings from all of the eating places. Parking is free. See an inventory of eating places and wineries on the web site.

The Piehole Mission
On-line Public sale
9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 17 by means of 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27
The Piehole Mission was began three years in the past as a solution to increase funds for Cooks for Tomorrow, which supplies culinary scholarships for native youngsters (budding cooks). Annually native cooks public sale off pies to the best bidder on-line, and annually has a theme; this yr it is the ’80s. However the massive information right here is you could get a one-of-a-kind pie from some wonderful native cooks, all for an important trigger. The public sale begins at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 17. So set the range alarm. The bidding runs by means of 9 p.m. Oct 27.

Halloween Treats
La Casita Bakeshop, 580 W. Arapaho Street, Richardson
By way of Halloween
We just lately wrote about La Casita Bakeshop baker, Maricsa Trejo, who’s on The Meals Community’s “Halloween Baking Championship” this season. Take a look at Instagram to see why she was nabbed to be on the baking present within the first place. Halloween is their bestest time of the yr. Then pre-order a whole field of goodies for pick-up this weekend.