A new taco shop in Rockville Town Center is celebrating many firsts, including a new kids’ menu that will help Montgomery County students pay off their lunch debt.

Little Miner Taco has partnered with Montgomery County Public Schools’ Dine With Dignity Foundation to raise money for school meals while families wait for approval to receive free meals through the Free and Reduced-Priced Meals system. Little Miner Taco will donate all proceeds from each kid’s meal to the fund at the new location. The kid’s meals are just $3 and include either a cheese (or chicken) quesadilla and chicken and rice.

Each kid’s meal also comes with a free aguafrescas through Saturday, August 17, as the taco shop attempts to raise $170,000 for the MCPS Educational Foundation during the upcoming school year. A grand opening celebration (August 28) will also feature free birria tacos, aguafrescas and DJ performances for patrons from 1-3 p.m. The first 50 customers will also receive a free birria condiment kit and $5 gift cards.

Little Miner Taco began as a Washington-area food truck that now operates small self-service locations in Brentwood and North Bethesda, Maryland. In July, it opened its largest restaurant yet, with a salsa bar, a brand new logo and a new full-service bar.

The competition for frozen drinks is becoming more and more exciting

Want to try your hand at being a judge on some limited-edition frozen drinks? Electric Cool-Aid is hosting its fourth annual Frozen Cocktail Competition on Sunday, August 18 at 2 p.m., and anyone can enter to try the drinks of some of DC’s favorite bartenders. See who’s competing for a Princess Elsa wand and tiara, tickets to the Repeal Day Ball, and gifts of Flor de Caña rum and Camus cognac (plus bragging rights) on the outdoor bar’s Instagram. As summer draws to a close, Electric Cool Aid also hosts plenty of other events, from movie nights to murder mystery parties.

Restaurant Week Burnout? Here are a few extra weeks of deals

If you’re already overwhelmed by all the Restaurant Week meals you want to fit in this week (and worried about your weekly budget), there’s still plenty of time to check out these meal deals. Some Restaurant Week extensions have already been announced, here’s a roundup of just a few you might want to consider.

• Oyamel Restaurant Group is extending the availability of its Restaurant Week menu through August 25, with China Chilcano, Oyamel, Jaleo, Zaytinya, Spanish Diner and The Bazaar offering multi-course lunch and brunch menus.

• Modena will expand its lunch ($35) and dinner ($55) menus for Summer Restaurant Week, August 13-24.

• Bindaas is expanding its Restaurant Week lunch ($25) and dinner ($40) menus from August 12-25.

• Ambar in Shaw, Clarendon and Capitol Hill is also offering prix fixe lunch ($25-$29) and dinner ($55) menus through August 25, offering diners a change from the usual all-you-can-eat restaurants.

• ala in Bethesda and Dupont Circle is offering a four-course dinner ($55) and a three-course brunch ($35) from August 5-25.

• Bresca is offering Restaurant Week specials throughout August, with a new three-course dinner menu ($65) offered each week.

• And RIS is celebrating its 15th anniversary all summer long with a $20.09 lunch at its bar.

Learn about delicious wines and taste them (free)

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You don’t have to be a snob to love wine! If you’re looking to expand your wine taste or just enjoy finding new favorite wines, there are many free and inexpensive opportunities in the Washington DC area to taste wines and get advice from experienced sommeliers or wine producers.

• Newly opened Urban Grape, a Boston-based wine shop specializing in showcasing diverse producers, is offering free wine and spirits tastings Thursdays from 5-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 2-5 p.m. There are bottles for sale of everything you try, with special discounts during the tastings.

• Shoals Market at the Square, the newly opened food and beverage shop, hosts free wine tastings every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. on a variety of themes, with next week’s focus on sparkling wines. Sarah Vanags, wine director at Casa Teresa and manager of Shoals, will lead the tastings.

• The Cork Wine Bar and Market offers free wine tastings led by winemakers and importers every Saturday from 12pm to 3pm, with bottles sold at special prices.

• Not free, but an incredible deal: Nido Wine Shop and Market hosts $10 wine and spirits tastings every Friday (and sometimes other days of the week), announcing on the shop’s Instagram what delicious bottles they’ll be sampling. The tasting also includes a 12% discount on any items purchased in the shop.