Name: Mario's Italian Lemonade
Address: 1068 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL, 60607
Telephone: (708) 652-8680
Price range: $

Mario's Italian Lemonade

Food + DrinkLittle Italy · Italian Ice / Dessert Community-sourced, unverified

📍 1068 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607

There's no sign, no seats, and definitely no website — just a walk-up window on Taylor Street that has been shaving Italian ice since long before "artisanal" was a word anyone used about dessert.

Mario's rotates through a dozen-ish flavors a day — lemon, peach, black raspberry, watermelon, chocolate, piña colada — scooped into paper cups for a few bucks apiece. It's open from May 1 through mid-September, and the owner has kept that closing date tied to his father's memory for decades, which is the kind of detail that tells you this isn't a chain testing a concept.

Lines form on warm nights the way they have for generations. Don't go looking for a happy hour or a coupon code — the whole point of Mario's is that it never needed one.

Hours

Seasonal: May 1-mid Sept

Daily~11AM-midnight (confirm before visiting)

🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (708) 652-8680

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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Mario's Italian Lemonade

There's no sign, no seats, and definitely no website — just a walk-up window on Taylor Street that has been shaving Italian ice since long before "artisanal" was a word anyone used about dessert.

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