- Mike Sula
- Machete de cochinita pibil, Machetes
The last time I wrote about a restaurant’s quesadillas, it was because they caught my eye for their impressive size. But as large as they are, I suspect the ones at Little Village’s Las Quecas might have just been the forerunners of a coming quesadilla arms race. Enter Machetes Big Quesadillas, a bare-bones Archer Heights storefront run by two sisters who brought a very particular expression of the quesadilla gigante from their hometown, Mexico City. If you do a Google image search for “machete quesadilla,” so called for its resemblance to the standard coconut splitter, you’ll see them getting griddled all over Mexico. But Maria de Jesus Lopez Sandoval saw a void and brought them to Chicago, only sizing down their standard two-foot length by four inches because she couldn’t find serving plates long enough to accommodate their impressive measure, according to DNAinfo.
Machetes Big Quesadillas, 4888 S. Archer, 773-321-9143, bigquesadillas.com
- Mike Sula
- Machetes Big Quesadillas
