One Great Dish: De Colores' Pozole

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Mar 8, 2010 5:20PM

Restaurants, from white tablecloth concepts to McDonad's, have varied cycles of life. Pilsen's De Colores is currently capitalizing on the restaurant boom in that neighborhood in a way the restaurant that preceded it, Picante Grill, could not. Now a BYOB, simple taqueria using the family recipes of owners Sergio and Priscilla Reyes, the food at De Colores can be a hit or miss affair.

One of the major hits is their take on pozole, the traditional pork and hominy stew. De Colores' version is a clear broth, teeming with whole white hominy, spices and large cubed chunks of pork butt. It's complemented with a side of fresh sliced onion, cabbage, tomato and radish, along with an effervescent cucumber salsa. Compared to how soups and stews are served in other taquerias, De Colores' pozole is a diet portion. It's still big enough to serve two.

De Colores, 1626 S. Halsted, 312-226-9886