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El Bagelero
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2025
- address1961 N Western Ave, Chicago 60647
Is El Bagelero clean?
El Bagelero is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at El Bagelero?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • No sanitizer test strips on site for 3-comp sanitizer solution, Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005.Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • No sanitizer test strips on site for 3-comp sanitizer solution, Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Meat slicer not clean behind blade, food debris noted, instructed to clean and maintain.
When was El Bagelero last inspected?
El Bagelero has 11 inspections on record going back to October 10, 2019.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 30, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| April 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 31, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 3, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 25, 2022 | Fail | |
| July 30, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 17, 2020 | Fail | |
| October 16, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 10, 2019 | Fail |
El Bagelero vs Logan Square
Logan Square runs 66% clean across 1,321 tracked restaurants — 870 clean, 253 mid, 186 cooked.
Against the 1,321 spots Cooked tracks in Logan Square, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 October 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.