El Ranchito Food Market

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJune 5, 2026 →
• address3900-3904 W 71St, Chicago 60629
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is El Ranchito Food Market clean?

El Ranchito Food Market is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 5, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at El Ranchito Food Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was El Ranchito Food Market last inspected?

El Ranchito Food Market has 23 inspections on record going back to November 8, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

El Ranchito Food Market vs West Lawn

West Lawn runs 79% clean across 172 tracked restaurants — 134 clean, 31 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 172 spots Cooked tracks in West Lawn, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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