El Barco Restaurant

• official resultPass w/ Conditions
• resultPass w/ Conditions
• inspection typeSuspected Food Poisoning
• failed findings3
• critical findings0

← Back to the current restaurant page

Failed findings

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: Food Protected During Storage, Preparation, Display, Service And Transportation
  Inspector note: All food should be properly protected from contamination during storage, preparation, display, service, and transportation. SOURCE OF CROSS CONTAMINATION, INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINE, TOP AREA OF MACHINE AND INTERIOR PANELS, APPEARS TO HAVE MOLD BUILD-UP, NOT CLEAN, INSTRUCTED TO DISCONTINUE USE, AND USE PRE PACKAGE ICE, UNTIL MACHINE IS CLEAN, MACHINE TAGGED, INSTRUCTED TO FAX A LETTER TO CDPH ONCE MACHINE IS PROPERLY CLEAN AND SANITIZE, FAX #312746-4240 SERIOUS CITATION ISSUED: 7-38-005 (A)
  code 16
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Official wording: Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents
  Inspector note: All food and non-food contact surfaces of equipment and all food storage utensils shall be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized daily. MUST CLEAN ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT, DOWN COOKING LINE
  code 33
• 🪳pests in the house
  Official wording: Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained
  Inspector note: Ventilation: All plumbing fixtures, such as toilets, sinks, washbasins, etc., must be adequately trapped, vented, and re-vented and properly connected to the sewer in accordance with the plumbing chapter of the Municipal Code of Chicago and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Health. MUST STORE LARGE COOKING POT UNDER EXHAUST HOOD, TO ELIMINATE SMOKING FUMES IN RESTAURANT, AND MUST REPAIR SINK STOPPER AT KITCHEN 3 COMPARTMENT SINK
  code 38

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on September 26, 2011: 2 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 2 previous findings did not recur.

Browse this restaurant's inspections

More restaurants in West Town

• ✓! Barnes & Nobles Booksellers #2780
  mid · 1441 W Webster Ave · inspected May 8, 2019
• ✓ Red Hen Bread
  cooked · 1623 N Milwaukee Ave · inspected August 22, 2011
• ✓ Silli Kori
  cooked · 2053 W Division St · inspected November 17, 2022
• ? Master Catering
  cooked · 2100 W Grand Ave · inspected May 24, 2016
• ✓ The Beetle Bar & Grill
  clean · 2532 W Chicago Ave · inspected August 14, 2025
• ✓ Western Round Up
  cooked · 949 N Western Ave · inspected March 22, 2010

See every restaurant in West Town →

About this record

This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Chicago Data Portal.