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El Rey Del Taco & Burritos
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 22, 2025
- address4157 S California Ave, Chicago 60632
Is El Rey Del Taco & Burritos clean?
El Rey Del Taco & Burritos is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Rey Del Taco & Burritos?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on December 22, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was El Rey Del Taco & Burritos last inspected?
El Rey Del Taco & Burritos has 24 inspections on record going back to April 15, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 12, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 29, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 3, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 4, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2016 | Pass |
El Rey Del Taco & Burritos 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 64% 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 December 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.