Who doesn’t love carnival food? Bringing out the kid in all of us, this month Patrick Waites has gathered together a few select chef friends to create fun but haute circus fare for the fund-raiser he started two years ago. On Friday, September 17, his nonprofit Love Street Light Circus presents Come Together: A Gala Tribute to the Beatles, which will see Fab Four cover bands jamming in a musical concert to benefit Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance. Culinary participants include chefs from The Strip House, Gravitas, RDG + Bar Annie, Yelapas, Beaver’s, Saltgrass Steakhouse, Oceanaire, The Grove and more. Tickets cometogetherhouston.com … Here’s a new place to dish with your decorator: Decco Café opens this month at Decorative Center Houston, with chef Humberto Molina-Segura (most recently from Americas and La Griglia restaurants) behind the range. Decco serves up breakfast and lunch — freshly baked breads and croissants, crafted sandwiches and salads, and seasonal entrees — Monday through Friday, and is open to the public … Proving you can eat well while doing good for your community, Stefanie and Gur Tsabar launched Gourmet Prep Meals last month. The idea is that you can fix beautiful chef-prepared meals in your own kitchen from clever ready-to-cook meal kits where all the chopping, measuring and pre-meal prep has been done for you. The Tsabars even enlisted Shane Battier’s personal chef Justin Turner to devise the menus. One hundred percent of the proceeds from every meal kit sold benefits training youth who are aging out of the foster care system in entrepreneurship. Details gourmetprepmeals.com … At CityCentre, Jerry Lasco will open his popular wine bar The Tasting Room Wine Café late this year. Last month, Flora & Muse — a European-inspired bistro with a patisserie, coffee bar, lounge and flower shop — debuted a few doors away. David Luna, formerly exec chef of Canopy, is behind the range … Martin Berson, former operating partner at Benjy’s, is bringing his Austin-based concept Snap Kitchen to Houston. Think chef-prepared, healthy takeout fare. Watch for an opening at the end of this month at the corner of Richmond and Kirby … This fall, chef Chip Hight, formerly with the Alden Hotel’s 17 restaurant, will open Blue Apron, a full-service catering company … Looking for Morton’s The Steakhouse GM John Recio? He’s hung up the tux and headed to Spring, then to Pearland to open Jax Burgers, Fries & Shakes with made-to-order Angus burgers in both locales … On Thursday, September 30, Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, will speak with the Progressive Forum of Houston at the Wortham Theater. Tickets 832.251.0706.