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Cocina Delgado

Family-style Mexican catering from Cicero, including taquizas set up in a garage, a hall or a back yard.

About this business

Origin story

Hector and Alma Delgado ran a taqueria on 22nd Street for nine years and closed it in 2016 for the reason most taquerias close, which is the rent. The catering half had always been the profitable half, so that is the half they kept.

Why families choose us

A taquiza is two people, a comal and a folding table, and it will feed eighty people better than any buffet line you have paid more for. We bring it to garages, church halls, parking lots and back yards, and we cook in front of your guests for as long as they keep coming. For the day of a funeral we more often do the quiet version: birria, arroz, frijoles and a tray of pan dulce delivered to the house before anyone gets back from the cemetery, and nobody from us in the room. Either way you tell us the count and we cook ten percent over it, because we have never once seen a family with leftovers regret them. Everything can be arranged in Spanish, and Sundays cost the same as any other day.

Ownership

Latino / Hispanic-ownedFamily-ownedImmigrant-owned

Who they serve

Religious tradition

Catholic

Community served

MexicanPuerto Rican

Language

Spanish

Services & pricing

Service

Price

Taquiza, cooked on site

Three meats, tortillas made at the table, salsas, onions and limes.

$18

per person

Delivered comida

Birria, rice, beans and pan dulce, dropped off warm before you get back.

$15

per person

Travel beyond fifteen miles

Added once, whatever the size of the order.

$60

flat

Common questions

¿Pueden cocinar en el garaje o en el patio?

Sí. Llevamos el comal, las mesas y el gas, y cocinamos delante de la gente todo el tiempo que haga falta.

How many people does a taquiza need to be worth it?

Forty and up. Below that the delivered comida costs you less and tastes the same, and we will tell you so on the phone.

Can you deliver before we are home from the cemetery?

That is what we do most often. Give us a key-holder or a neighbor and the food is warm on the table when the cars pull up.

What families say

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Did you work with Cocina Delgado?

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Service area

Address

2214 S Cicero Ave, Cicero, IL 60804

Location and coverage

BerwynCiceroForest ParkRiversideWest SideSouthwest SideNew CityWest TownChicago Lawn
Cocina Delgado's room, 2214 S Cicero Ave
Areas Cocina Delgado also travels to
Lake Michigan

2214 S Cicero Ave, Cicero, IL 60804

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Travels to

Suburbs · Southwest Side · West Side · Cicero · Berwyn · Riverside · Forest Park