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El Jardin Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 14, 2025
- address3333-3339 N Clark St, Chicago 60657
Is El Jardin Restaurant clean?
El Jardin Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Jardin Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED THE FRONT BAR NEAR THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT LEAK FROM THE DRAIN PIPE OF THE HAND SINK. WATER LEAKING ONTO THE FLOOR, BUT HAND SINK IS STILL FUNCTIONAL. OBSERVED LEAKING BASE OF FAUCET WHEN WATER IS TURNED ON FROM SCRAPE SINK NEXT TO THE DISH MACHINE IN REAR DISH AREA. OBSERVED THE 4 COMPARTMENT SINK IN THE LARGE BAR AREA TO HAVE HANDLES OF THE FAUCET THAT ARE LEAKING FROM BOTH HANDLES WHEN EITHER WATER IS TURNED ON. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO SERVICE MULTIPLE LEAKS THROUGHOUT FACILITY AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR.
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required • OBSERVED BOTH MANAGERS TO NOT HAVE VALID ALLERGEN TRAINING AT TIME OF INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENSURE ALL CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED MANAGERS TO COMPLETE AND MAINTAIN ALLERGEN AWARENESS TRAINING.
When was El Jardin Restaurant last inspected?
El Jardin Restaurant has 23 inspections on record going back to October 18, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 22, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 3, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 14, 2017 | Pass |
El Jardin Restaurant vs Lake View
Lake View runs 40% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 880 clean, 214 mid, 1,110 cooked.
Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 63% 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 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.