El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 20, 2025 →
• address3038-3040 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60618

Is El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House clean?

El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destructioncritical

When was El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House last inspected?

El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House has 33 inspections on record going back to May 4, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House vs Irving Park

Irving Park runs 78% clean across 369 tracked restaurants — 288 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 369 spots Cooked tracks in Irving Park, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

Other spots in Irving Park

• ✓ El Chile Restaurant & Pancake House
  clean · June 12, 2012
• ✓ Hock Shop
  clean · March 23, 2011
• ? Giuseppe's Baking Co
  cooked · September 26, 2013
• ? Laroma Pizza
  cooked · June 22, 2012
• ✓ Ruby's Fast Food
  cooked · August 14, 2017
• ? Chicago Meat Market Inc
  cooked · December 19, 2012

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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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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