CERDITO MUERTO Chicago

🐷 “Dead Piglet”

✨ Behind the scenes of my review at Cerdito Muerto in Pilsen, a Mexican American restaurant and cocktail bar, reincarnating a father’s pool hall, a mother’s taqueria, and a childhood home

🌮 Mamá Coco’s al pastor taco

🐐 birria taco (by chef Becky Carson inspired by Consuelo Oceguera’s recipe)

🕊️ Guillermo’s Paloma (from beverage consultant / Wednesday bartender Guillermo Martinez)

🍓 sin piquete

☕️ café de olla ice cream

🐓 Al’s tinga tostada (sound on for cromch)

🍍 piña colada güera

🍔 hamburguesa aplastada

🇵🇸 Owner Emidio Oceguera transformed the historic building that survived the Great Chicago Fire (and real estate development) into an elegant and emotional experience

📰 My latest review at @chitribfood, at the link in my profile @louisachu1, and free here!
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🙏 Photos by Terrence Antonio James. Edited by Kayla Samoy. Photo edited by Steven Rosenberg. Copy edited by Nancy Stuermer. Print design by Alyson Morris.

🎁 ¡Y traducción al español de José Luis Sánchez Pando gratis aquí!
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