Houston's cocktail bar Julep won the James Beard Award for the Outstanding Bar Program in a ceremony in Chicago on June 13. The James Beard Foundation, a national non-profit culinary arts organization, announced Houston’s beloved cocktail bar Julep as the winner of the national Outstanding Bar Program category at its 2022 Beard Awards ceremony on Monday, June 13.

This week on Texas Eats -- Host David Elder visits a Houston deli that’s popular for their wide selection of meats and sandwiches. Then, he stops by The Waffle Bus -- a classic Houston food truck that transitioned to a brick-and-mortar restaurant with several locations! Finally, this Houston-area BBQ joint is ranked No. 3 top barbecue place according to Texas Monthly Magazine in 2021.

Mahoney’s Texish Bar and Restaurant was standing-room only Sunday in The Woodlands for its first Pride event, a drag show, despite pushback on social media. When the event, Drag Me To Brunch, was announced, it was booked up in three hours. But several weeks later, the restaurant began getting critical phone calls and social media backlash that Mahoney’s was endangering children by hosting the drag event.

Big Horn BBQ's rocks bbq party packs to get your Fourth of July party going. Photo by Becca Wright On Saturday, July 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applegate will be surprising unsuspecting park-goers barbecuing on public grills across Houston with everything they need for an epic Fourth of July feast, with pop-ups at local parks including Herman Park and Memorial Park.

Saigon Hustle serves banh mi, made with bread baked fresh daily — all via drive-thru. Banh mi isn’t your average sandwich. It’s a historical art form. Stemming from France’s occupation of Vietnam in the mid-19th century, the dish is a flavorful combination of Vietnamese and French flavors in which a crispy-yet-fluffy French baguette serves as the vehicle for succulent meats, fresh and pickled vegetables, creamy sauces, and sometimes pork pate.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A series of exceptional 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned home to Israel, where the collection went on public display for the first time Monday after more than a decade touring the world’s top museums. The mosaics were first discovered in the central city of Lod in 1996 but the Israel Antiquities Authority only fully unearthed the enormous, well-preserved artworks in 2009.