There are restaurants you visit, and then there are restaurants you remember, and Hacienda Cocula in Countryside, Illinois falls so firmly into the second category that it almost feels unfair to every other restaurant in the state.
You know that feeling when you bite into something so good that you briefly forget what you were worried about?
That’s the Hacienda Cocula effect, and it hits fast.
The drive to Countryside might not feel like a grand adventure on paper…