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Buen Apetito
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 15, 2026
- address131 N Clinton St, Chicago 60661
Is Buen Apetito clean?
Buen Apetito is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Buen Apetito?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🌡️thermometers missingThermometers Provided & Accurate • OBSERVED PROBE THERMOMETER WITH GLASS COVERING THE DIAL SCRATCHED AND DIFFICULT TO READ ACCURATELY. FACILITY HAS ADDITIONAL DIGITAL THERMOMETER ON-SITE THAT IS EASY TO READ AND CALIBRATED. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE THERMOMETER GLASS AND MAINTAIN ALL TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICES EASY TO READ.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC CUPS USED AS SCOOPS IN BULK DRY FOOD CONTAINERS. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE SINGLE-USE CUPS WITH MULTI-USE UTENSILS WITH HANDLES TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION WHILE SCOOPING AND MAINTAIN.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC CUPS USED AS SCOOPS IN BULK DRY FOOD CONTAINERS. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE SINGLE-USE CUPS WITH MULTI-USE UTENSILS WITH HANDLES TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION WHILE SCOOPING AND MAINTAIN.
When was Buen Apetito last inspected?
Buen Apetito has 21 inspections on record going back to September 7, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 15, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 5, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 27, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 2, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 2, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 26, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 31, 2017 | Pass | |
| November 21, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Buen Apetito vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 59% 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 June 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.