Meet us where neighborhood bistro and quality ingredients unite
Quality ingredients that are sourced sustainably make up every dish at the Milkstop, an American bistro that earned a reputation for great food served “speakeasy-style” during the pandemic.
Chris and Mary Spagnola opened Milkstop in October of 2019 and shifted to carryout out and to-go cocktails during those difficult days of 2020 and 2021.
During the dark winter of 2021, the Spagnolas put their minds together to dream up a street-food option that could be served out the back door of their restaurant. They recalled the quesabirria, a delicious street taco the couple first discovered while working as chefs in Mexico.
What could be better to beat those winter blues than meat smothered in gooey cheese and pressed into a plancha-fried taco?
Soon a line curved around the block for the quesabirria with adobo-braised goat and beef from Slagel Family Farm that the Mikshop served for $5 out the back door of the bistro. (Today, all doors are open at the bistro, so you no longer have to knock at the back door for this delicacy!)
Milkstop is open for lunch Tuesday through Friday from 11am to 3pm and open for brunch Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 to 3pm.
The Milkstop dinner hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 4:30 to 8:30 and Friday and Saturday from 4:30 to 9pm.
Don’t miss the special half-priced bottles of wine on Wednesday nights. It’s the perfect way to wash away the mid-week blues!
Of course, you’ve read about the $5 Mexican street taco - the quesabirria - that made Milkstop famous! Small plates for sharing are around $15. Dinner entrees are around $25. A Milkstop signature cocktail is about $13.
You will likely find owners Chris and Mary Spagnola at the restaurant. The chef couple joined with business partners Sharon Owens, and Steve & Mary Jo Quirk, to bring a neighborhood bistro with a relaxed vibe to the West End of La Grange.
The Milkstop is in the West End of La Grange at 700 W. Burlington Ave.
The cafe is located in a building built in 1901 that stands across the street from the original stop on the first railway to the area (it was a milk stop on the Aurora Branch Railroad, of course!) The bistro is just under a half-mile walk from the La Grange Road Stop on the BNSF Railway.
