It’s finally hot outside and one Chicago restaurant is celebrating the rising temperatures with free sundaes until May 19.  If you visit Little Market Brasserie between 9 and 11 p.m. any day until then with a group of four, you’ll get a free Milk and Cookies Sundae.

The dessert features housemade chocolate chip cookies topped with vanilla and chocolate soft-serve ice cream. The ice cream is coated with an upscale version of Magic Shell, the fudge sauce that hardens to form a shell.

A healthy cocktail can sound like an oxymoron, but Mercadito’s beverage directors, Tippling Brothers’ Paul Tanguay and Tad Carducci, just introduced a new sip at the River North Mexican restaurant. The V-9 is a reinvention of the classic vegetable juice, and starts with a “super juice” made with kale, cilantro, pineapple juice, and ginger root, then spikes it with herradura blanco tequila and balances it with lime juice and agave nectar for sweetness. Begin by breaking out the juicer or blender and creating a blend of veggies, then pull out a bottle of silver tequila. This won’t replace your morning juice, but it may make you feel better about imbibing on a weeknight.

Takito Kitchen, which opened in Wicker Park in March, adds seasonal ingredients and chef spins to classic Mexican dishes. Plus it just started offering taco deals, which make it easier to try more of the menu in one visit.

The menu offers trios of tacos, like the Chicken Pepian tacos, which feature corn tortillas topped with chicken, avocado salsa verde, snap peas, ricotta, pepitas, and cilantro, the Grilled Brunkow cheese tacos, topped with kale, peanuts, salsa, and rhubarb chutney, and the Crispy Redfish tacos, hibiscus tortillas topped with fish, carrot jalapeño slaw, coconut custard, and basil. Don’t miss out on the special deals on Sundays and Tuesdays.

Whether you like thin, griddled patties, thick beefy burgers, or light veggie burgers, it isn’t hard to find a great burger in Chicago. May is National Burger Month, and that means restaurants all over the city are offering special patties and deals to encourage you to step outside your burger comfort zone and try something new.