Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 13, 2025
• address5403 N Clark St, Chicago 60640

Is Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill clean?

Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 13, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE HANDWASHING SIGNAGE AT HANDSINK IN (2) CUSTOMER'S WASHROOM AND IN FRONT BAR HANDSINK.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN, REPAINT OR REPLACE RUSTY METAL RACKS INSIDETHE BASEMENT WALK-IN COOLER. ----MUST REPAINT RUSTY METAL COVER/LID OF GREASE BOX UNDERNEATH THE (BASEMENT) 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE COVER/LID FOR ICE BIN BEHIND THE BAR.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS ALONG THE WALLS AND IN ALL CORNERS IN REAR KITCHEN AND IN FRONT BAR AREA. • INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE CRACKED LIGHTSHIELD ABOVE KITCHEN.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • NEW FOOD HANDLERS WITH NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT, ALL FOOD HANDLERS THAT DO NOT HAVE CITY OF CHICAGO FOODSERVICE SANITATION CERTIFICATE SHALL COMPLETE AN APPROVED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING PROGRAM.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • NEW FOOD HANDLERS WITH NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT, ALL FOOD HANDLERS THAT DO NOT HAVE CITY OF CHICAGO FOODSERVICE SANITATION CERTIFICATE SHALL COMPLETE AN APPROVED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING PROGRAM.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER WITHOUT AN ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT, ANY PERSON WITH CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SERVICE SANITATION CERTIFICATE TO COMPLY WITH ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATION.

When was Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill last inspected?

Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill has 22 inspections on record going back to January 27, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.

Other spots in Edgewater

• ✓ Zanzibar Cafe And Ice Cream Shoppe
  clean · January 19, 2016
• ✓ Cantina 1910
  clean · September 1, 2015
• ✓ Cantina 1910
  clean · September 1, 2015
• ✓ The Edge Theater
  clean · March 2, 2016
• ✓ Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill
  clean · June 23, 2015
• ✓ Lakeshore Convenience Store
  clean · February 10, 2015

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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 January 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.