Verde Cocina is pulling no punches this Cinco de Mayo holiday. Each of its four locations will run food and margarita specials. The Pearl location will have a DJ and stay open till 11 p.m., and the Mississippi restaurant will be screening old-school silent Mexican movies. But things will really be cooking at the Sylvan Highlands location, which will feature family-friendly fun, like games of plinko and corn hole, as well as face painting for the wee ones. Those activities go down from 4 to 8 p.m. on Cinco de Mayo and resume the following day, from 1 to 6 p.m.

This Cinco, El Gallo’s Jake Ray Brown will be offering pork, cheese, and, house-pickled jalapeño empanadas. Wash them down with homemade horchata, but don’t forget to save room for a choco taco dessert.

Xico’s introducing a new drink called the Mai Thai Chi Li, which is actually a chile Mai Tai made with dried pineapple and pasilla negro-infused rum. Food specials will include Dungeness crab tostada appetizers and a sharable pollo asado, which comes with salsas, tortillas, and other sides. And if the patio party gods are satisfied, the restaurant is hoping to seat guests on its secluded outdoor space.

Do you like margaritas? How about frozen, slushy margaritas? To ring in their first Cinco de Mayo in their brand-new brick-and-mortar digs, Güero’s Megan Sanchez and Alec Morrison are going full-on Cinco de Slushy: Find $5 slushy margaritas all day long. Keep your eyes peeled for food specials, too.

The Mexican street food-style rotisserie chicken spot Pollo Norte is also serving slushy margaritas this Cinco de Mayo at its NE Glisan St. location: $5 boozy slushies all weekend.

Chalino, the new Mexican restaurant by experienced chefs Johnny Leach (Momofuku) and Dave Haddow (Xico), is celebrating its first Cinco de Mayo by delivering its house-made micheladas — made with Tecate, beef stock, tajin, Valentina salsa, and lime — at a solid discount for $5. Also on offer are its regular halibut ceviches, fried chicken pibils, and mezcal flights.

For this year’s celebration, T9 is throwing a parking lot tent party, complete with carnitas tacos, chips and guacamole, T9 margaritas, Mexican beers, festive Jell-O shots, and a tune-spinning DJ.

You might not think that the Japanese noodle shop Noraneko would be taking advantage of the Cinco de Mayo holiday, but on this day and this day only, sous chef Santos Gongora is cooking up some conchinita pibil. You can order as-is, or if you’re feeling adventurous, get it as a sandwich, ramen, or — dare we say it — ramen nachos.