The case runs deep on both sides of the Indian snack spectrum — sweets like cham cham, a syrup-soaked dessert The Infatuation specifically called out as a favorite, sit alongside savory staples like vada pav and papdi chaat, the kind of counter-service street food that's hard to find done well outside of actual Indian street stalls. WBEZ's culinary-history coverage has used Sukhadia's more than once as a reference point for explaining pani puri and the broader Indian sweets-and-snacks tradition to a Chicago audience, which says something about how established the shop has become as a cultural touchstone, not just a place to eat. The business has grown enough to open satellite locations in Hoffman Estates and Skokie, but this original Devon Avenue store, at the corner of Devon and Rockwell, remains the flagship.
Hours run late into the evening most days of the week, 10:30am to 8:30pm, with Tuesdays off — plan a Devon Avenue sweets crawl around that schedule. For anyone exploring the strip's famous run of Indian and Pakistani restaurants, Sukhadia's is the dessert stop that locals treat as mandatory, not optional.
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