Kingwood Restaurants participate in Houston Restaurant Weeks

The Tasting Room and The Union Kitchen are participating in this years Houston Restaurant Weeks from August 1, 2014 to September 1, 2014.

Houston Restaurant Weeks (HRW) in the largest annual fundraiser for America’s largest food bank.

Each restaurant will make donations to the Food Bank based upon how many brunches, lunches and dinners are sold during the event.

In 2013 Houston Restaurant Week rasied over $1.2 million for the Houston Food Bank.

The Tasting Room

The Tasting Room in Kings Harbor is featuring a Four Course Dinner Menu for $35 Per Person (Closed Mondays). The Tasting Room will donate $5 to the Houston Food Bank from each dinner sold. See HRW menu here.

The Tasting Room
1660 W. Lake Houston Parkway, Suite 105
Kingwood, Texas, 77339
(281) 361-0044

The Union Kitchen

The Union Kitchen on US 59 in Kingwood is featuring a Two Course Lunch menu, and a Three Course Dinner menu (Monday-Friday). The lunch menu will cost $20 Per Person, a $3 donation will go to the Food Bank for each lunch sold. The Dinner menu will cost $35 and $5 will be donated to the Houston Food Bank. See HRW menus here.

The Union Kitchen
23918 U.S. 59
Kingwood, TX, 77339
(832) 644-9067

When making your reservations please let the restaurant know that you’d like the Houston Restaurant Weeks menu.

The Houston Food Bank will be able to provide 15 meals from each $5 donation, and 9 meals for each $9 donation.

Houston Restaurant Weeks was established in 2003 by Cleverley Stone, host of “The Cleverley Show,” a food talk radio program on CBS Sports Radio 650/KIKK-AM Houston and 6 1/2 year food segment contributor to Houston’s Fox 26 Morning News. To date, the event has raised more than $4.3 million to fight hunger in Houston. The HRW team of volunteers donate their time to produce the event so that 100% of the donations raised go directly to the Houston Food Bank.

[google_map map_id=”2636″/]

Visit Houston Restaurant Weeks website for a list of all Houston area restaurants participating this years benefit.

About the Houston Food Bank

Now operating from a new, 308,000 square-foot facility, the Houston Food Bank is the nation’s largest size Feeding America food bank and source of food for hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties. They have been named one of 10 Top-Notch Charities across the nation by Charity Navigator. A network of 500 food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding a total of 137,000 people each week, provides 64 million nutritious meals annually. Fresh produce, meat and nonperishables are distributed from the new warehouse at 535 Portwall, and hot meals are prepared and distributed from Keegan Center, a 15,000 square-foot industrial kitchen.

Additional community services range from nutrition education to assistance with food stamp applications and hands-on job training. Red Barrels offer a convenient way for grocery shoppers to donate nonperishables for their neighbors in need. The Houston Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network. The organization plans to grow to an annual distribution of 100 million nutritious meals by 2018.