Dining events: Bahama Breeze adds menu items, live bands for Reggae Fest

Reggae Fest at Bahama Breeze

Live bands, authentic Jamaican food and a new Caribbean-inspired cocktail. They're all on tap starting Saturday, July 1, during Bahama Breeze's Reggae Fest. Every Saturday during summer, Bahama Breeze will host live reggae bands. Satisfy your hunger with the special "Taste of Jamaica" plate, offering jerk pork, jerk chicken, beef empanadas, rice 'n' beans, callaloo and sweet plantains. Top it off with the new Jama "Can" Punch featuring Captain Morgan, Myers's Dark Rum, pineapple and lime juice and Angostura bitters served in a limited-edition tin can. Bahama Breeze is at 406 E. Golf Road, Schaumburg. (847) 884-7060 or bahamabreeze.com/home.

Retro Bistro's anniversary menu

Retro Bistro celebrates its first anniversary in Crystal Lake and 27th year in Mount Prospect with a three-course prix fixe menu for $27. Menu items include but are not limited to grilled Pacific calamari steak and French herbal goat cheese salad, entrees of pork tenderloin au poivre and grilled wild Pacific salmon, and desserts of creme brulee and flourless chocolate ganache cake. Available Friday and Saturday, June 30 and July 1. Retro Bistro has locations at 83 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake, (815) 893-4465, and 1746 W. Golf Road, Mount Prospect, (847) 439-2424. retrobistro.com/.

Steak + Vine's future adult menu

Emphasizing its family-friendly atmosphere, Steak + Vine offers its littlest patrons a specialty "future adults" menu. All choices come with an appetizer of apples, carrots, celery and grapes. Entrees include a grilled or fried chicken breast, grilled cheese, pennette pasta with marinara or butter and Parmesan, each for $8; or grilled or fried shrimp kebabs for $12; or tenderloin kebabs of filet medallions, pineapple and tomato for $12. Entrees come with a choice of french fries or veggies. Steak + Vine is at 37 S. La Grange Road, La Grange. (708) 579-0520 or steakandvine.com.

210 Restaurant's R&B/Gospel brunch

To celebrate the weekend before July 4, 210 Restaurant hosts an R&B/Gospel brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 2. Offerings include anything from a biscuits egg benedict station to shrimp and chicken gumbo to roast turkey with cornbread stuffing and gravy to roast Scottish salmon with citrus and capers. Enjoy live music from Jeannie Holliday and the Archie Parks Project. $34.95 adults, $19.95 kids 11 and younger. 210 Restaurant, 210 Green Bay Road, Highwood. (847) 433-0304 or 210restaurant.com.