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Fun do-gooding: Eat well to fight AIDS

For once, treating yourself to a meal on the town is actually helping to treat someone else.

Today is the 19th annual Dining Out For Life, when participating restaurants across Houston (and the world) will donate 33 percent of food bills to fight HIV/AIDS. In Houston proceeds will go to AIDS Foundation Houston.

This deal is good all day long, so you could start the day off at Baby Barnaby's or The Breakfast Klub, head to lunch at Baba Yega or Lola, and grab dinner from Arcodoro or Benjy's.

Check out a full list of the nearly 50 participating restaurants, available on the Dining Out For Life site and at b4-u-eat.

Every genre of restaurant is represented, from pizza to Vietnamese to tacos to pub fare. As an added bonus, when dining you can ask your server for a drawing envelope and enter to win some great prizes — last year's grand prize was two first-class roundtrip tickets on Continental.

Wherever you head, it's bound to be the most satisfying meal of the year.

this week's hot headlines

Houston's nostalgic new Italian restaurant leads top 5 stories

Milton's restaurant interior

Photo by Julie Soefer

Milton's opened this week in Rice Village.

Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.

1. Fresh pastas and chicken parm await at new Houston Italian restaurant. The restaurant serves handmade pastas and meats cooked in a wood-burning Josper oven.

2. Houston soul food cafe makes New York Times favorite restaurants list. It's one of only three Texas establishments to make the list.

3. Luxurious Houston steakhouse reboots as 'relaxed' neighborhood eatery. The owner of The Pit Room is switching things up at his steakhouse.

4. River Oaks mansion by famed architect hits market for $18.9 million. Designed in 1938, the home sits on more than 1.6 acres.

5. Celebrated Houston West African restaurant sets Montrose opening date. After earning national acclaim as a stand at Post Houston, the restaurant will open on Nigerian Independence Day.

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