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Feast with the Beasts 2008

 
 
 
The votes are in: Feast with the Beasts 2008 was a rousing success! Beautiful weather, great food, live music, and other special activities for our guests combined to create a fantastic evening for the more than 2,000 guests who attended this year's event.

In addition to great food, our guests enjoyed a marvelous variety of wines from Yellow Tail and beers from Budweiser Select. The restaurants also participated in a competition to be the audience favorite: Congratulations to Taste of Texas for winning 1st place! In 2nd place was Executive Chef Bradley Manchester of Hotel ZaZa and in 3rd was Danton's Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen. Other top vote getters were Capital Grille, Maggiano's Little Italy, and P.F. Chang's China Bistro.

Feast with the Beasts
is one of the Zoo's premier annual events; this event raises funds to help support the Houston Zoo's many operating expenses, including education and conservation programs, as well as the care and feeding of our 4,500 animal ambassadors. Thank you to everyone who supported this event, and we hope to see you next year.  (By the way, next year's event is scheduled for November 6, 2009--mark your calendar now!)

Special thanks to our generous sponsors:

     

 
2020 Exhibits
Bill Young Productions, Inc.
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners
Comfort Systems USA, Inc.
Continental Airlines – The Official  
    Airline of the Houston Zoo
Devon Energy Corporation
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Houston Texans
The Kayser Foundation
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
Memorial Hermann
Oceaneering International, Inc.
Service Systems Associates
Waste Management
YMCA of the Greater Houston Area

Beverage Sponsors:



 
 
 
 
 
 

 








Participating Restaurants:

Arcodoro
Bistro Lancaster – A Valencia Hotel
Bistro Le Cep
Café Express
Capital Grille
Cavatore Italian Restaurant
Cookies in Bloom
Crapitto’s Cucina Italiana
Cupcake Café
Cyclone Anaya’s Mexican Kitchen
Danton’s Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House
Fountains of Chocolate
Frank’s Chop House
Hotel ZaZa – Exec. Chef Bradley Manchester
Hungry’s Café and Bistro
Illy Caffe/Tea & Coffee America
Jackson and Company
Jamba Juice
Joyce’s Ocean Grill
La Villette Catering & Special Events
Maggiano’s Little Italy
Masraff’s Restaurant
Melange Catering & Special Events
Mi Pueblito
Molina’s Cantina
Ooh La La Dessert Boutique
Ouisie’s Table
Pagoda Vietnamese Bistro & Bar
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Picnic
Pico’s Mex-Mex Restaurant
Prima Pasta Restaurant
Rao’s Bakery Coffee Café
Reef
Rio Ranch
Ruth Meric Catering
Salud! Winery & Bistro
Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse
Spencer’s for Steaks and Chops
Strip House
Taste of Texas Restaurant
The Grove/The Lakehouse
The Oceanaire Seafood Room
Tokyohana
TwoRows Restaurant and Brewery
Zoe’s Kitchen