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Cocula Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 20, 2026
- address8847 S Commercial Ave, Chicago 60617
Is Cocula Restaurant clean?
Cocula Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cocula Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-204.12 OBSERVED PIPES GOING INTO THE FLOOR DRAIN UNDER THE ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A 6 INCH GAP OR PROVIDE A BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE ON THE FRESH WATER LINE OF THE ICE MACHINE.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • 4-602.11 OBSERVED A BROWNISH SUBSTANCE INSIDE OF THE SODA GUN NOZZLE AT THE DRINK PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND SANITIZE.
When was Cocula Restaurant last inspected?
Cocula Restaurant has 29 inspections on record going back to February 4, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 20, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2026 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 22, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 20, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 12, 2019 | Fail |
Cocula Restaurant vs South Chicago
South Chicago runs 75% clean across 144 tracked restaurants — 106 clean, 21 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 144 spots Cooked tracks in South Chicago, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.