A Very Merry Bellaire

Nov. 29, 2025

Bellaire will be sparkling this Saturday, Dec. 6, as the 16th annual Light Up the Night & Soup Cook-Off takes over downtown. Follow the floats and sleighs in the parade to the Christmas tree lighting, followed by the soup extravaganza, where 11 local chefs will compete for your vote. (Tickets are $15 at participating local establishments.) Santa will be on hand, and there will be plenty of festivities—think a marching band, live nativity scene, fire pits, shops open late—for the whole family. You can also catch the third year of the Bellaire Artist Guild Holiday Market at two locations, including Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology, which will have an artisan pop-up and card-making station at their soon-to-open Meeting House + Mercantile at 221 North Bridge Street. For more details, head to bellairechamber.org/light-up-the-night.