Name: Mole Village Restaurant
Address: 2302 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL, 60608
Telephone: (773) 823-7159

Mole Village Restaurant

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📍 2302 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

Chef Agustín Bahena, from the state of Guerrero, Mexico, built his reputation for mole years before Mole Village Restaurant ever opened — his earlier Pilsen spot, La Fogata Village, repeatedly took home the trophy at ESDC's Mole de Mayo festival, the neighborhood's flagship mole competition that pulls in over 130,000 people a year.

★★★★★ 4.7 via Google

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The Village Pollo Mole has won Mole Fest twice, which tells you everything about how seriously this tiny Pilsen spot takes the dish.

📈 Scores in the top 99% of Chicago Exclusive Gems on ChicagoSpecials.com

Mole Village is where that legacy landed: a tiny storefront tucked into an industrial/residential stretch of Blue Island Avenue that's become as much a gathering place for Pilsen's pro-immigrant activists and Latino cultural organizers as it is a restaurant, hosting community forums and art exhibitions alongside dinner service. Homemade tortillas and chips come standard, and the mole itself — the reason for all the trophies — is the kind of dish that makes a strip-mall-adjacent building worth seeking out on purpose.

It's small, it's a little out of the way, and it's closed Tuesdays, but a 4.7 Google average from a neighborhood that doesn't hand those out lightly says the detour is worth it.

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4.7 stars — tiny, tucked into an industrial/residential stretch; homemade tortillas and chips.

Hours

Mon10AM-6PM

Tue Closed

Wed-Sun 10AM-6PM

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 823-7159

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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