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El Barco Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 28, 2025
- address1035 N Ashland Ave, Chicago 60622
Is El Barco Restaurant clean?
El Barco Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Barco Restaurant?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was El Barco Restaurant last inspected?
El Barco Restaurant has 46 inspections on record going back to February 1, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 18, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 23, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 22, 2021 | Fail |
El Barco Restaurant vs West Town
West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.
Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 55% 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 May 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.