Name: Birrieria Reyes de Ocotlan
Address: 1322 W 18th St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Telephone: (312) 733-2613
Price range: $

Birrieria Reyes de Ocotlan

Super GemPilsen · Mexican (Birria) Community-sourced, unverified

📍 1322 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

Birrieria Reyes de Ocotlan runs a tight, half-dozen-item menu on 18th Street in Pilsen, built entirely around birria — goat stew, as owner Karina Reyes describes it to ABC7, 'a family platter that you sit with your family and eat.' The goat tacos and goat consome are the obvious draw, but the tongue tacos and cabeza tacos, loaded with beef cheek, give regulars real reasons to branch out beyond the signature dish.

A tight, half-dozen-item birria menu — goat tacos, tongue tacos, cabeza tacos, goat consome — from owner Karina Reyes's 18th Street spot, Pilsen's own answer to the city's Ocotlan-style birria tradition.

Everything comes finished simply, with onion and cilantro rather than a pile of competing toppings, letting the birria itself do the talking. Mains run around $8, open daily except for slightly shorter Sunday-Friday hours against a later Saturday close.

The name and the Ocotlan, Jalisco hometown reference overlap closely with another Reyes-run birrieria on the Far Southeast Side — whether the two are formally connected or just share a common surname and a recipe tradition from the same birria-famous town couldn't be confirmed, but either way, this Pilsen location has built its own solid, independent reputation on 18th Street.

Hours

Sun-Fri10AM-10PM

Sat10AM-11PM

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (312) 733-2613

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

🙂Kid-friendly

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