La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp.

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 29, 2025 →
• address2517 W 51St St, Chicago 60632

Is La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp. clean?

La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp. is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 29, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp. last inspected?

La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp. has 11 inspections on record going back to March 10, 2015.

La Costena Ice Cream Shop Corp. vs Gage Park

Gage Park runs 81% clean across 207 tracked restaurants — 165 clean, 32 mid, 7 cooked.

Against the 207 spots Cooked tracks in Gage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 25% of them.

Other spots in Gage Park

• ✓ Richmond Food & Liquors
  clean · August 13, 2013
• ✓ Richmond Food & Liquors
  cooked · August 13, 2013
• ✓ Frutty Bomba
  cooked · May 22, 2013
• ✓ Neveria Nandos
  cooked · April 14, 2016
• ✓ Posoleria Dona Esther
  cooked · June 18, 2013
• ✓! La Fuente Restaurante #2
  cooked · June 2, 2025

See every restaurant inspection in Gage Park →

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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 October 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.