De Colores Chicago: Latin Fusion Color Landing on Clark Mid-October

De Colores Chicago is the Andersonville night you want when the craving is color — a hollowed pineapple stuffed with shrimp and melted cheese, ropa vieja that has been slow-cooking all afternoon, tostones rellenos piled with carnitas, and a room Benjamin Bloom dressed in floral banquettes, fringe lamps, and a fireplace wrapped in cobalt, red, and gold tile. Owner Patricia Guerrero is aiming for a mid-October 2026 open at 5403 N. Clark Street, and De Colores Chicago is her long-promised sit-down answer to years of Edgewater Tacos regulars asking when they would finally get a real table.

This is not a booking tutorial. Reservations are not live yet. It is a reason to get excited — what the room already looks like, whose recipes are on the plate, and the light practical notes that keep you ahead of Soft Open.

What is De Colores Chicago?

De Colores Chicago is a Latin fusion restaurant opening in Andersonville from Patricia Guerrero, the owner of Edgewater Tacos on Broadway. Block Club Chicago’s September 28, 2026 report — after a September 23 preview night in the finished room — put the target at mid-October at the former Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill storefront. The Infatuation’s fall openings guide flagged the project for Cuban, Ecuadorian, and Colombian range beyond a standard Mexican grill, plus flower-covered booths and vivid tile around the fireplace.

Guerrero has been clear that this is not Edgewater Tacos with tablecloths. Edgewater Tacos stays the take-out shop built around her father’s Mexican side of the family. De Colores Chicago is where she cooks from her mother’s Ecuadorian roots with Cuban and Colombian heritage in the mix — “Latin fusion — a little bit of this, a little bit of that,” she told Block Club. Sit-down service, a full bar, and a rear patio are the bones of the night.

Bookmark these public channels:

• Site + opening list: decolores.io
• Instagram: @decoloresmexicangrill
• Address: 5403 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640
• Press / house note: hola@decolores.io

Treat mid-October as the window Guerrero gave Block Club after the preview. Watch the opening list and Instagram if Soft Open slides a few days — common for a full gut renovation.

Why does De Colores Chicago feel like a neighborhood homecoming on Clark?

Because Guerrero has lived on the same Edgewater–Andersonville block for more than fifty years, and she is not coy about what that means. “This has been roughly 25 years in the making,” she told Block Club. “I’ve lived on the same block for 53 years, so Edgewater and Andersonville is my home. To be here in my neighborhood is such a blessing.” The family’s restaurant story goes back further: her father, Isidro Guerrero, ran Durango Mexican Restaurant on Thorndale in the 1980s; Edgewater Tacos opened in 2018 as the next chapter after his death in 2021.

She always wanted a full-service dining room. Her mother told her to start smaller — advice that looked prophetic when the pandemic hit two years after Edgewater Tacos opened. The take-out “nook” kept the lights on. The Clark Street lease arrived through Benjamin Bloom, a friend, Edgewater Tacos regular, and fellow Andersonville shopkeeper behind Bloom & Co. and Heritage Home Supply. He led the redesign. Guerrero spent the year gutting the old Cescas shell until the room looked like the one she had been promising customers for years: “I owe this to them,” she said. “They supported me through thick and thin, and I promised them this.”

What should you order at De Colores Chicago?

Start with the dishes Guerrero highlighted for Block Club at the September 23 preview — the plates that sell the Latin-fusion brief in one glance:

• Ropa vieja — Cuban-style shredded meat cooked low and slow until it falls apart on the fork
• Stuffed piña — a hollowed pineapple filled with shrimp, red pimento, crema, and melted cheese
• Tostones rellenos — smashed fried plantains loaded with carnitas
• Empanadas — both Ecuadorian and Colombian styles on the same menu

House Instagram also teased preview-night energy with sangria, margaritas, chicharrones and guacamole, loaded tostones, and taqueños — the kind of shareable first round that makes a four-top feel like a party before the main plates land. The official site frames the kitchen as contemporary Latin American cooking rooted in generations of family recipes spanning Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico. That is the pitch in one sentence: color on the plate, family memory in the seasoning, and a bar that keeps pace.

If you already love Edgewater Tacos for fish tacos and burrito suizo energy, come ready for a different map. Guerrero built De Colores Chicago to showcase the other side of her family’s table — not to photocopy Broadway.

What does the De Colores Chicago room feel like?

Bloom’s design brief was color, texture, and family. The walls carry photos of Guerrero’s relatives — the people who taught her that cooking is inheritance. Floral banquettes, embroidered fringe pendant lamps, exposed brick, and that fireplace wrapped in bright tile give the dining room a maximalist warmth that still feels intimate. Infatuation called out the flower-covered booths and the tiled fireplace; the house photos on decolores.io confirm the mood: jewel-toned wallpaper, brass lighting, marble bar details, and a chef’s-table nook that looks built for a birthday toast.

Clark Street already knows how to turn a weeknight into a stroll. De Colores Chicago slots into that corridor as a sit-down destination with a rear patio waiting for the nights when Andersonville wants dinner outdoors. Bloom has mostly designed residences; Guerrero’s trust let him treat the restaurant like a home you dress up for company — which is exactly how the room reads.

When does De Colores Chicago open, and how do you get in?

Mid-October 2026 is the public target Guerrero gave Block Club after the September 23 preview. Earlier winter/spring chatter had floated Cinco de Mayo; treat the September interview as the live plan. The house site is still in opening-list mode: join at decolores.io to hear when reservations go live, when more preview nights land, and when the doors are officially open. As of this writing there is no public OpenTable, Resy, or Tock grid — Soft Open will announce through the list and @decoloresmexicangrill.

That booking note is useful. It is not why you want to go. You want to go for stuffed piña under fringe lamps, a patio night on Clark, and a neighborhood chef finally cooking the Ecuadorian–Cuban–Colombian side of her family’s story in a room built for lingering.

Who is De Colores Chicago for?

De Colores Chicago is for Edgewater and Andersonville regulars who have been waiting for Guerrero’s sit-down chapter; for date nights that want color and cocktails without downtown theater; for four-tops that order empanadas both ways and argue about which is better; and for travelers who already cross the city for Edgewater Tacos and want a proper dinner reservation once Soft Open inventory exists.

It is probably not the move if you need a confirmed bookable grid tonight, a fixed tasting menu, or a carbon copy of the Broadway taco counter. This is a new dining room with Soft Open still ahead — the honest excitement is the mid-October window, the finished Bloom interior, and the Latin fusion menu Guerrero previewed in September.

How does De Colores Chicago fit the Andersonville dining map?

Andersonville’s Clark corridor keeps turning over storefronts while the neighborhood calendar stays crowded — and De Colores Chicago is the rare opening that feels both new and deeply local. Guerrero is not dropping in from another city. She is expanding a few blocks from the taco shop that put her on the map, into a space a neighbor helped her find, designed by a designer who already shops and eats on the same street. That continuity is the story under the fringe lamps.

Public reporting also places the project in the wider fall Chicago openings conversation — Infatuation’s roundup listed De Colores Chicago alongside bigger-name Soft Opens — but the night itself reads neighborhood-scale: sit-down Latin fusion, patio potential, and a house that still asks you to join a waitlist rather than fight a midnight drop.

What should you watch before Soft Open?

• Join the opening list at decolores.io — first path for reservation go-live and preview nights
• Follow @decoloresmexicangrill for menu stills, hiring/service updates, and Soft Open timing
• Keep Edgewater Tacos (edgewatertacos.com, 5624 N. Broadway) on the lunch map while you wait — same family, different format
• Plan around mid-October; confirm the hard date before you book a birthday or out-of-town weekend

Frequently asked questions

When does De Colores Chicago open?

Owner Patricia Guerrero told Block Club Chicago on September 28, 2026 that De Colores Chicago is targeting mid-October 2026 at 5403 N. Clark Street after a September 23 preview in the finished dining room.

Is De Colores Chicago the same as Edgewater Tacos?

No. Same owner, different concept. Edgewater Tacos remains the primarily take-out Mexican shop on Broadway. De Colores Chicago is a sit-down Latin fusion restaurant highlighting Ecuadorian, Cuban, and Colombian dishes alongside Mexican notes, with a full bar and rear patio.

How do you make a reservation at De Colores Chicago?

Reservations are not open yet. Join the opening list at decolores.io and watch @decoloresmexicangrill for Soft Open and bookable inventory. No public OpenTable, Resy, or Tock link is live as of this writing.

What is on the De Colores Chicago menu?

Preview highlights include ropa vieja, stuffed piña with shrimp, tostones rellenos with carnitas, and both Ecuadorian and Colombian empanadas, plus cocktails and shareable snacks such as sangria, margaritas, and guacamole with chicharrones.

Who designed the De Colores Chicago interior?

Andersonville designer Benjamin Bloom of Bloom & Co. and Heritage Home Supply led the renovation, filling the former Cescas space with family photos, layered color, floral seating, and a tiled fireplace that has already become the room’s signature.

Where is De Colores Chicago?

De Colores Chicago is at 5403 N. Clark Street in Andersonville, Chicago, IL 60640 — on the Clark Street corridor known for independently owned shops and restaurants.

Sources: Block Club Chicago (Sep 28, 2026); The Infatuation fall 2026 openings guide; decolores.io; @decoloresmexicangrill; edgewatertacos.com history.