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Brasa Roja Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 9, 2025
- address3120 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60618
Is Brasa Roja Restaurant clean?
Brasa Roja Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Brasa Roja Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BOXED FOOD ITEMS BEING STORED ON FLOOR IN BASEMENT WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES FROM FLOOR AND MAINTAIN.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BOXED FOOD ITEMS BEING STORED ON FLOOR IN BASEMENT WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES FROM FLOOR AND MAINTAIN.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED RUSTY STORAGE RACKS IN THE WALK-IN COOLER IN THE BASEMENT. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO REMOVE RUST AND ENSURE ALL NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES REMAIN SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
When was Brasa Roja Restaurant last inspected?
Brasa Roja Restaurant has 13 inspections on record going back to February 4, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 2, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 3, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 15, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 4, 2018 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2016 | Pass |
Brasa Roja Restaurant vs Irving Park
Irving Park runs 64% clean across 804 tracked restaurants — 516 clean, 141 mid, 146 cooked.
Against the 804 spots Cooked tracks in Irving Park, this one comes out cleaner than 38% of them.
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How Chicago grades restaurants
Chicago does not use letter grades. Every inspection ends in one of three official results: Pass, Pass with Conditions, or Fail. Pass with Conditions means violations were found but corrected on the spot or under a deadline — the restaurant is open, with homework. A Fail means serious violations went uncorrected, and it usually brings a re-inspection within days. Chicago also flags “priority” violations, the ones most likely to actually make someone sick. Cooked reads Pass as clean, Pass with Conditions as mid, and Fail as cooked, and shows the itemized violations behind each result.
Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.