Mediterranean flavors abound at MKT Bar and Phoenicia Specialty Foods
MKT BAR at Phoenicia Downtown Market: Foodies & Friends
Katie Stone visits with Haig Tcholakian at Phoenicia Specialty Foods downtown market to get a preview of the MKT Bar’s 2025 EatDrinkHTX menu, and of course get some baklava!
HOUSTON - From a fresh almond croissant to Zerto Mascarpone Cream Phoenicia Specialty Foods covers everything Mediterranean. The downtown store located at 1001 Austin Street offers free parking in the One Park Place garage just off McKinney between Austin and LaBranch.
MKT Bar is participating in EatDrinkHTX and Haig Tcholakian highlights some of the menu items for Katie Stone in this episode of Foodies and Friends. With a menu as varied as the contents of the Phoenicia market there’s something to please everyone.
MKT Bar is open Monday- Wednesday from 11a- 8p, Thursday and Friday adds an hour 11a-9p. Brunch is served on the weekend and the restaurant is open on Saturday from 9a to 9p and Sunday 9a to 6p.
The Phoenicia Market hours are Monday – Wednesday 8a-7:30p, Thursday and Friday 8a-8p, Saturday 8:30a- 8p and Sunday 8:30a to 6p
EatDrinkHTX menus will go live on February 1, 2025, at www.eatdrinkhtx.com. This year’s event will benefit the Houston Food Bank and Houston Kids’ Meals.
EatDrink HTX is the sister campaign to Houston Restaurant Weeks. Like foodie favorite HRW, Eat Drink HTX offers specially priced, prix fixe brunches, lunches and dinners along with a corresponding donation. Participating restaurants make donations based upon how many Eat Drink HTX meals they sell during the event.
Produced by the Cleverley Stone Foundation, Foodies and Friends streams live on FOX LOCAL Wednesday's at 11:30 a.m. and repeats on Saturday mornings.
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The Cleverley Stone Foundation was created by Cleverley’s daughter, Katie Stone, to continue her mother’s mission and legacy of supporting Houston Restaurant Weeks benefiting the Houston Food Bank, which takes place August 1 through Labor Day each year. Together, Houstonians and Houston restaurant owners have raised more than $18 million over the past 20 years to support the Houston Food Bank and the hunger needs of our community.
Houston Restaurant Weeks, and its sister event, Eat Drink HTX, is the largest annual fundraiser for the nation’s largest food bank. The Houston Food Bank services an 18-county area in southeast Texas.
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COMING IN 2025
EatDrinkHTX - February 15 - 28
Houston Restaurant Weeks – August 1 - September 1