Dining events: Tour French wine at special Restaurant Michael dinner

Restaurant Michael's Tour of France

Restaurant Michael hosts a Tour of France wine dinner that begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. The menu includes grilled foie gras, sauteed filet of Alaskan halibut, roasted breast of duck, artisan cheeses and strawberry frangipan financier. Wine importer Michael Corso will speak to the French wine pairings that range from a 2011 Emile Beyer to a 2013 Bourgogne. $85 per person. Restaurant Michael is at 64 Green Bay Road, Winnetka. (847) 441-3100 or restaurantmichael.com

Wildfire's Half Acre beer dinner

Half Acre Beer Company partners with Wildfire in Schaumburg for a beer dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. The four-course menu includes lump crab bites, chicken scarpariello with Italian sausage, pappadew peppers and roasted potatoes, grilled skirt steak and shrimp, and vanilla bean bread pudding for dessert. The beer menu includes Half Acre's Pony Pilsner and the Akari Shogun American Wheat Ale. $55 per person, excluding tax and gratuity. Wildfire is at 1250 E. Higgins Road, Schaumburg. (847) 995-0100 or wildfirerestaurant.com/schaumburg.

Brick's pizza of the month

Brick's Wood Fired Pizza Cafe's May pizza of the month is the pizza mexicana. Made with a black bean sauce, house cheese blend, topped with chorizo sausage, jalapeño peppers, shaved red onion and finished with cilantro and sliced avocado, and drizzled with sour cream, the pizza mexicana is 12 inches and runs $12. Brick's Wood Fired Pizza Cafe has locations in Lombard, Wheaton and Naperville. brickswoodfiredpizza.com.