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El Mariachi Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 11, 2025
- address3420 1/2 N Broadway, Chicago 60657
Is El Mariachi Restaurant clean?
El Mariachi Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 11, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Mariachi Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED A FEW DAMAGED AND MISSING WALL TILES UNDERNEATH THE 3-COMPARTMENT SINK IN REAR FOOD PREPARATION AREA MUST REPAIR REPLACE AND MAINTAIN SURFACES SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE SURFACES. OBSERVED PEELING PAINT ON WALL IN REAR DISHWASHING AREA. MUST REPAINT AND MAINTAIN.
When was El Mariachi Restaurant last inspected?
El Mariachi Restaurant has 19 inspections on record going back to March 29, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 5, 2025 | — | |
| April 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2019 | Fail | |
| October 25, 2019 | — | |
| July 30, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 19, 2018 | — | |
| August 29, 2017 | Pass |
El Mariachi Restaurant vs Lake View
Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.
Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 June 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.