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El Habanero
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 3, 2024
- address3300 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago 60647
Is El Habanero clean?
El Habanero is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on October 3, 2024. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at El Habanero?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 3, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • FOUND NO BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICES AT MOP SINK/AND COFFEE MACHINE.MUST PROVIDE WHERE THEY CAN BE LOCATED AND SERVICED.
When was El Habanero last inspected?
El Habanero has 16 inspections on record going back to February 27, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 28, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| October 3, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 18, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 2, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 14, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 23, 2019 | Fail | |
| December 5, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 10, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 23, 2017 | Pass |
El Habanero vs Logan Square
Logan Square runs 42% clean across 1,321 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 142 mid, 612 cooked.
Against the 1,321 spots Cooked tracks in Logan Square, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 3, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.