El Pilon

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 6, 2013
• address3706 W Armitage Ave, Chicago 60647

Is El Pilon clean?

El Pilon is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 6, 2013. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Pilon?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • Any open cans of food must be transferred into regular containers. All food stored in coolers must be dated & labeled.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • Any open cans of food must be transferred into regular containers. All food stored in coolers must be dated & labeled.
• ⚠️Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • All clean single service utensils must be stored with handles up.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • All clean single service utensils must be stored with handles up.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • Cutting boards with deep, dark grooves must be sanded/bleached or replaced and remove aluminum foil liners from stove.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • Cutting boards with deep, dark grooves must be sanded/bleached or replaced and remove aluminum foil liners from stove.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • All cooking equipments,interiors of coolers,upper panel of ice machine,hood and filters over stove require a detail cleaning.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN and maintain the floors and baseboards so they are smooth and sanitary from corner to corner.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN and maintain the floors and baseboards so they are smooth and sanitary from corner to corner.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • Must provide a visible backflow prevention device for the mop sink and repair slow drainage at said sink.
• ⚠️Appropriate Method Of Handling Of Food (Ice) Hair Restraints And Clean Apparel Worn • Food handlers must have hair restraints when working around open food.
  Appropriate Method Of Handling Of Food (Ice) Hair Restraints And Clean Apparel Worn • Food handlers must have hair restraints when working around open food.

When was El Pilon last inspected?

El Pilon has 3 inspections on record going back to October 23, 2012.

El Pilon vs Hermosa

Hermosa runs 65% clean across 816 tracked restaurants — 527 clean, 160 mid, 127 cooked.

Against the 816 spots Cooked tracks in Hermosa, this one comes out cleaner than 38% of them.

Other spots in Hermosa

• ✓ 143 Seven Food Mart
  clean · November 30, 2012
• ✓ Three Aces
  clean · June 28, 2013
• ✓ Mario's Tacos Corporation
  clean · September 4, 2014
• ✓ R & M Grocery, Inc
  clean · February 6, 2013
• ✓ A1 Food Mart
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• ✓ Bp
  clean · February 1, 2013

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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 March 6, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.