The annual Feast of San Gennaro is in full swing this weekend as local restaurants offer special menus during this street festival full of live music, parades and family-friendly activities. Bolstered in recent years by the presence of restaurants like Torrisi Italian Specialties, guests will find more gourmet food than what's offered at typical New York street festivals. The 11-day event ends on Sept. Mexican Independence Day will be celebrated across the city this weekend. On Saturday, Pampano Botaneria, 209 East 49th Street (Third Avenue), in Midtown East, throws an all-night happy hour starting at 5 p.m., with food and drink specials. At the Hôtel Americano, 518 West 27th Street, in Chelsea, the celebration includes mariachi music, a guest D.J. at the bar and a three-course menu of modern Mexican cuisine. There's an after-party at the downstairs bar from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Call (212) 525-0000 for reservations. On Sunday, a street festival along East 116th Street, between Lexington and Second Avenues, in Spanish Harlem, runs from noon to 5 p.m. The opening of LT Burger, 8 West 40th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), in Midtown, this week marks a return of sorts to Manhattan for the chef Laurent Tourondel, whose former partner Jimmy Haber operates the BLT restaurants the two founded together after their nasty split. The menu offers his take on American classics, with more than 10 types of burgers to fried Oreos for dessert. David Burke Townhouse, 133 East 61st Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), on the Upper East Side, hosts Cloudy Bay winery for a special four-course wine pairing dinner Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $120 per person and can be bought by calling (212) 813-2121 or online. Ricardo Zarate, the Los Angeles chef behind Mo-Chica and Picca, will be cooking at City Grit, 38 Prince Street (between Mott and Mulberry Streets), in SoHo, on Friday and Saturday. The seven-course meal will include dishes with a Peruvian flair, including ceviche and Amazonian paiche fish. Tickets are $85 per person and reservations are available online for the two dinners, both at 7:30 p.m. The Greek restaurant Molyvos, 871 Seventh Avenue (between 55th and 56th Streets), in Midtown, celebrates "September in Santorini" during dinner service throughout the month with a four-course menu paired with wine from the region. The special is $60 per person and includes a complimentary bottle of white wine. NYC Honey Week 2012 culminates on Saturday with a honey festival sponsored by Brooklyn Grange Farm at the Rockaway Beach Club along the boardwalk. Various food stands will offer honey-centric food samples and there will be workshops, demos, film screenings, art, live music and more. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. and continue until sundown. The Freaktoberfest Boutique Beer and Music Festival on Saturday features more than 25 craft breweries gathered at Greenwood Park, 555 Seventh Avenue, in the South Slope, Brooklyn. Beer will poured from noon to 5 p.m., and there will be local bands, a burlesque show and entertainment by sideshow performers like Donny Vomit. The event also marks the seasonal launch of CoBouney Island Freaktoberfest, a lager by Shmaltz Brewing Co., available through Halloween. Tickets, $60 per person, are available online. New York's best street vendors and food trucks will be pitted against one another in a cook-off at the annual Vendy awards on Saturday from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Governors Island. Proceeds from the event benefit the Street Vendor Project. Tickets are available online. A dumpling-eating contest takes center stage at Smorgasburg, 27 North Sixth Street (Kent Avenue), in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Contestants will see who can eat the most dumplings in two minutes as they vie for a $1,000 prize. Chelsea's Table, located at Pier 62 at 12th Avenue and West 23rd Street, will bring in a farmer's market cart from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays through the end of the month. Trussbridge Farm will provide the produce. A few restaurants debut their brunch menus this weekend. Rosemary's, 18 Greenwich Avenue (West 10th Street), in Greenwich Village, is now serving an Italian farm-to-table brunch Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. At Silk Rd Tavern, 46 West 22nd Street (near Sixth Avenue), in the Flatiron district, a menu of Asian and American flavors will be served everyday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Sunday, Haven Rooftop at the Sanctuary Hotel, 132 West 47th Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), in Midtown, launches brunch in its glass-encased rooftop. Brunch will be served Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.