Wheaton restaurant features Cinco special
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in multiples of five - $5, that is. Arrowhead Restaurant and Bar features an all-you-can-eat taco bar for $5 with choices of steak, pork, tilapia, chicken or mushroom tacos on a corn tortilla with salsa and guacamole. Wash them down with $5 margaritas and choose from five flavors: mango, strawberry, pomegranate, lime and passion fruit.
Facts: 11 a.m. to midnight, Arrowhead Restaurant and Bar, 26w151 Butterfield Road, Wheaton. (630) 653-5800.
Derby Day
Prepare for the year's most exciting two minutes of horse racing at a Kentucky Derby party Saturday, May 2, at John Barleycorn Schaumburg. Toast the winner with $5 mint juleps and enjoy traditional Derby foods such as a Kentucky burgoo, bourbon-battered fried chicken and bread pudding with bourbon sauce. No cover.
Facts: 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday, May 2, at John Barleycorn Schaumburg, 1100 American Lane, Schaumburg. (847) 619-5540.
May movie Mondays
Celebrate the '80s with a movie and a drink at Movie Mondays at D.O.C. Wine Bar West. Every Monday features a different movie in the Tasting Room with May's theme being "I love the 80s." This week's movie is "Sixteen Candles." Complimentary truffle butter popcorn accompanies $6 "Pretty in Pink" cosmos and half price bottles of wine $100 and under.
Facts: 7 p.m. Monday, May 4, at D.O.C. Wine Bar, the Shops on Butterfield, 326 Yorktown Center, Lombard. (630) 627-6666.