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Pilsen Treat: Bombon

Run by the husband-wife team of Luis Perea and Laura Cid-Perea, Chicago's BomBon dishes up first-rate Mexican bakery items.

While unmistakably a Mexican bakery, BomBon flirts with flourishes of European style and influences. The result is a phenomenally tasty hybrid. We sampled an individual $3.50 Tres Leches cake that made us swoon. Served in a foil cup, it was reasonably sized and not too sweet.

According to this online account, the goal of the bakery is to deliver high quality Mexican pastries versus Mexican-American pastries. This means, among other things, a fuller engagement with European influences.

There are currently two BomBon locations, both in the largely Latino neighborhood of Pilsen: at 1508 W.18th Street and 38 S. Ashland Avenue.

Though people swarm to BomBon from all over Chicago, the business clearly remains rooted in Pilsen life. An employee we spoke to told us that BomBon has an active policy of hiring from within the neighborhood.

[Image via Nuevo Anden/Flickr]