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El Pescador Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address4056 S Western Ave, Chicago 60609
Is El Pescador Restaurant clean?
El Pescador Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Pescador Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • Unable to locate backflow prevention device for ice maker, instructed to install.
When was El Pescador Restaurant last inspected?
El Pescador Restaurant has 17 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 22, 2024 | — | |
| March 15, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 21, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 14, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2020 | Fail | |
| April 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
El Pescador Restaurant vs Brighton Park
Brighton Park runs 64% clean across 402 tracked restaurants — 254 clean, 80 mid, 66 cooked.
Against the 402 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton Park, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.