River Wards Restaurant and Cafe Week
Oct. 2-8
Various restaurants and cafes
Price Fix menus from $5-$30
It's your cheapest chance to discover the flavors of Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond. Participating eateries include New Wave Cafe, Hinge, Byrne's Tavern, The Green Rock, Thang Long Noodle, Soup Kitchen, Frankford Hall, Brindle Cafe and Johnny Brenda's.

a Play, a Pie and a Pint
Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 and 25-26, 6 p.m.
Society Hill Playhouse, Red Room Pub (507 S. 8th St., Philadelphia)
$15 (includes a beverage and slice of pizza)
This "brilliantly casual" Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia-funded production's inaugural season opens this week and runs through October, featuring a new show each week presented by four Philadelphia-based theater companies and served up with a pie (slize of pizza) and a pint (beverage of choice). The project originally launched in Scotland seven years ago and makes its American debut after 12 seasons and more than 200 productions. Tiny Dynamite artistic director Emma Gibson has assembled some impressive talent, including several Barrymore winners and nominees.

Home Grown: Movie Night and Happy with the Mill Creek Farm
Thursday, Oct. 6, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Vox Populi Gallery (319 N. 11th St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia)
$15 online, $20 at the door
This relaxing hours offers local and organic drinks and refreshments and a chance to mix with West Philadelphia's urban farm project, the Mill Creek Farm. Also watch two documentaries on food and what it means to eat sustainably -- West Philly Grown and What's Organic About Organic?