Astros playoff specials

Cheer on your Houston Astros with these grand slam food and drink specials

East End Backyard has added a giant LED wall for watching the Astros.

Photo by Nick Scurfield

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the Houston Astros success so far this postseason. A team that began the playoffs as a 22:1 underdog now stands four wins away from making back-to-back World Series appearances.

It has achieved this success without the starter that won last's year Cy Young Award, the closer who saved 38 games in 2019, or the reigning American League Rookie of the Year. After limping into the playoffs with a below .500 winning percentage, the Astros have been breathing orange fire — using timely hitting (welcome back, Jose Altuve) and young pitching to triumph over the Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics.

Even though fans can’t attend the games in person, now’s the time to root, root, root for the home team. Houston’s bars and restaurants have a number of specials designed to lift people’s spirits.

The Bagel Shop Bakery
The Meyerland institution is serving blue and orange Astros-themed bagels throughout the playoff run.

Biggio's
The Vegas-style sports bar in the Marriott Marquis hotel offers $10 Jim Beam highballs during Astros games plus happy hour from 3-6 pm daily.

Brasserie du Parc
The French restaurant near Discovery Green has two options for Astros fans. Get either an 8-ounce cheeseburger or a crepe-wrapped lamb sausage with fries and a beer (or glass of wine) for just $10.

Bobcat Teddy's
The Heights ice house will feature $15 domestic beer buckets and $20 craft beer buckets for all of the ALCS games.

The Burger Joint
Diners receive a free milkshake for every Astros home run. The coupon may be redeemed immediately or used on a future visit.

Cactus Cove
The Creek Group’s Timbergrove bar offers $18 buckets, $3 pints, and their signature Hempstead Nachos during Astros games. In addition, they’ll be holding raffle drawings throughout the game; prizes include Astros swag, Creek Group gift cards, and free appetizers

East End Backyard
Brian Ching's new patio bar in the East End is taking $1 off Crawford Bock, Bud Light, Bud Light Seltzers, and Michelob Ultra during all Astros games. Just opened last week, East End Backyard has installed a giant 10-foot by 16-foot outdoor LED wall for watching the games.

Eighteen36
Head to this bar and restaurant in Upper Kirby for specials that include $10 bottled beer and hot dog meal combination, $12 draft beer + hot dog meal combination ($1 more for Beyond Dog), and $15 beer flights (three craft beer pints of choice, ordered one at a time).

The Flying Saucer
Downtown’s craft beer destination will feature $4 drafts on Monday, October 12, as well as $6 Makers Mark Old Fashioneds during all Astros games. In addition, the establishment is holding a raffle to win pinatas of two legendary Astros antagonists: Mike Fiers, the former Astros pitchers who revealed the team’s sign stealing procedures, and Jomboy, the passionate Yankees fan who has tweeted extensively about the Astros sign stealing. A portion of proceeds from the raffle will benefit local non-profit Kids Meals Houston.

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Hay Merchant
Chris Shepherd’s craft beer and comfort food restaurant is usually closed on Mondays, but it will be open starting at 2 pm for today’s game with a special menu that includes loaded pulled pork “totchos,” Korean fried corn dogs, soft shell crab po’boys as well as signature items such as chicken wings and the Cease and Desist Burger.

Jax Grill
This burger-centric restaurant will feature $2 beers and $2 margaritas during all of the Astros games. The recently-opened Katy location offers 11 flat-screen TVs in its bar area.

Johnny’s Gold Brick
Recently reopened as a restaurant per TABC guidelines, the Heights cocktail favorite will sell $1 chili dogs during all Astros playoff games.

Monkey’s Tail
The CultureMap Tastemaker Awards 2020 Bar of the Year will open early for Astros games. On Monday, October 12, it will be 3 pm with a steak night special that runs all afternoon and evening.

Onion Creek
The Heights patio bar has specials that include: $4 cans of Houston craft beers; $8 Oktoberfest Bratwurst Dog; and a $10 Bavarian plate that comes with two soft pretzels, a grilled bratwurst, and sides of cheese sauce and beer mustard.

Revelry on Richmond
This Montrose sports bar will feature $5 Houston draft beers and Orange Crush shots for Astros fans to sip while watching the game on more than 30 TVs.

State Fare
Get happy hour pricing on food and drinks at this Texas comfort food restaurant with locations in Memorial and Sugar Land. Deals include select cocktails and wines by-the-glass for $6, select beers for $5, and a selection of bar bites priced $5-7.

Sticky's Chicken
Feed a crowd with buy one get one half-off wing trays, chicken over rice trays, and karaage over rice trays. See website for available flavors and prices.

Tacos A Go Go
The popular Tex-Mex taqueria is featuring $3 Astros Orange Margarita with Blue Curaçao during the playoffs games. Available for dine-in and to-go.

Weights + Measures
This Midtown establishment has created to-go packages that include $5 hot dogs, meatball slides (three for $12), and batched cocktails ($30).

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Aaron Bludorn's new hotel restaurant brings French flair to Montrose

Perseid restaurant Hotel Saint Augustine

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French classics such as terrine and coq au vin are on the menu at Perseid.

Bludorn partners Aaron Bludorn and Cherif Mbodji are ready to unveil their latest project. Perseid, the duo’s first all-day concept, will open this Thursday, January 16.

Located on the campus of the Hotel Saint Augustine, the recently-opened boutique hotel in Montrose, Perseid, named for the annual meteor shower that takes place in August, aims to be a neighborhood bistro that actually draws Houstonians to dine — an almost impossible task for a Houston hotel restaurant. While the list of people who’ve tried without breaking through is long — Top Chef Masters winner Chris Cosentino’s Rosalie’s Italian Soul being among the more recent examples — Aaron Bludorn is confident that Houstonians will support Perseid just as enthusiastically as they have his three other restaurants, fine dining eatery Bludorn, seafood restaurant Navy Blue, and lively tavern Bar Bludorn.

“Being a local restaurant group gives us an advantage over other hotels that bring in chefs from out of town,” Bludorn tells CultureMap. “It’s hard to play an away game in the restaurant business. You need home field advantage.”

Also giving Perseid an advantage towards success is the strong relationship the Bludorn team has established with Bunkhouse, the Austin-based hotel group behind the Hotel Saint Augustine. As CultureMap reported in December, the 71-room property occupies five, two-story buildings that quietly blend into its neighborhood. Its location near the intersection of Richmond and Mandell is only a short walk to the Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel.

“Bludorn [the company] has never partnered with anyone in our young history,” the chef notes. “It’s a big deal to link our brand to them. We feel very comfortable with Bunkhouse. If we signed up with someone with less synergy, I wouldn’t be able to say that.”

The hotel’s proximity to the Menil Collection also inspired the direction of Perseid’s food. Building on the story of the de Menil family’s move from France to Houston, Bludorn and his team created a menu built around some of the classic French fare that diners might expect from a chef who spent 10 years leading the kitchen at New York’s celebrated Bar Boulud. That means French staples such as duck and foie gras terrine, escargot, and coq au vin will be available at lunch and dinner.

“I’ve wanted to do a French restaurant for a long time,” Bludorn says. “If you look at Gulf Coast cuisine, there are so many overlaps between French and Gulf Coast cuisine. I wanted something that really speaks to that. I wanted a place where we can have a terrine on the menu full time.”

Of course, simply pulling recipes out of Mastering the Art of French Cooking won’t do. Perseid adds some Gulf Coast flair to all of its creations, such as serving crawfish sausage as an appetizer or giving a Thai twist to its duck frites courtesy of mango, green pepper, and coriander.

Breakfast, served daily beginning at 7 am, draws liberally from the brunch menus of its three sibling restaurants. That means Bludorn’s celebrated pancakes, previously only available for Sunday brunch, are now more readily available. Pastry chef Marie Riddle has also created a full roster of viennoiserie, ensuring freshly-baked croissants and other pastries will be available every morning.

Bludorn, who began his culinary career as a breakfast cook, says he has deep respect for the morning meal. He hopes Houstonians will work the restaurant into their morning routines, such as University of St. Thomas faculty stopping by before their classes or parents coming for coffee after dropping their kids off at a nearby school such as Annunciation Orthodox.

Photo by Julie Soefer

French classics such as terrine and coq au vin are on the menu at Perseid.

“There are some restaurants that serve breakfast in Houston. I’d love for this restaurant to be a place where Houstonians have a breakfast meeting,” Bludorn says.

Perseid will also assist with the hotel’s bar, the Augustine Lounge, which is open for breakfast, light bites, and cocktails through the day. It will also prepare items for events at the Montrose Ballroom, an event space that’s located above the restaurant with a capacity of up to 250 standing (130 seated). Its menus will be available to hotel guests via room service during the restaurant’s operating hours.

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