Eating out: Fresh Mex burgers a smash

Smashburger offers Fresh Mex toppings

Take your sandwich south of the border with Smashburger's new Fresh Mex burger or chicken sandwich. Now through April 29, top your sandwich with fresh avocado, chopped cilantro, onions, pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and spicy chipotle mayonnaise. Served on a Mexican roll with a wedge of lime. Smashburger has locations throughout the suburbs; smashburger.com.

Diet-friendly pizza

The words “pizza” and “diet” usually don't go together, but Eshticken Pizza has changed that with its patent-pending, no-carb crust. Any of the specialty topping combos — including the OMG mushroom made with a fresh mushrooms in a cream sauce, the Philly steak and cheese or the buffalo chicken ranch — can be added to the zero-carbohydrate crust or a traditional flour crust. Fourteen-inch specialty pizzas with the zero carb crust cost $22.45. Eshticken Pizza, 4660 Hoffman Blvd., Hoffman Estates; (847) 747-0000 or eshticken.com.

Sun Shui in top 50

A recent CNN report named Sun Shui one of the top 50 Chinese restaurants in the country. The Arlington Heights restaurant was feted for its sushi bar, General Tso's chicken and its dinner special: dinner for two for $38 that includes soup, a starter, two entrees and a dessert. Sun Shui, 155 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights; (847) 870-8888 or sunshui.com.