El Rincon De Fabio

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2025
• address1002 W Argyle St, Chicago 60640

Is El Rincon De Fabio clean?

El Rincon De Fabio is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 26, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Rincon De Fabio?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE BLACK TRAYS STORED FACING UP IN THE PREP AREA ON TOP OF PREP TABLE. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT TRAYS TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE BLACK TRAYS STORED FACING UP IN THE PREP AREA ON TOP OF PREP TABLE. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT TRAYS TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED TORN GASKETS ON THE INSIDE OF TWO DOOR PREP COOLER NEXT TO KITCHEN ENTRANCE. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.

When was El Rincon De Fabio last inspected?

El Rincon De Fabio has 6 inspections on record going back to December 21, 2022.

El Rincon De Fabio vs Uptown

Uptown runs 62% clean across 725 tracked restaurants — 446 clean, 137 mid, 137 cooked.

Against the 725 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 41% 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 August 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.