La Michoacana

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 28, 2020
• address4600 W Belmont Ave, Chicago 60641

Is La Michoacana clean?

La Michoacana is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 28, 2020. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at La Michoacana?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE. CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFRICATE IS POSTED ON SITE BUT THE SAID PERSON IS NOT ON SITE. INSTRUCTED PERSON IN CHARGE THAT CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER MUST BE ON SITE WHILE SERVING PREPARING TCS FOOD SUCH AS MIKLSHAKE, HAM SANDWICH. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-012 CITATION ISSUED
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • NO CLEAN UP PROCEDURE FOR VOMITING AND DIARRHEAL EVENT AND CLEANING SUPPLIES KIT. PRIORITY FOUNDATION, 7-38-005 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • NO VISIBLE THERMOMETER INSIDE THE 3 DOOR REACH IN COOLER AND PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored • WIPING CLOTH FOR WIPING THE PREP TABLES, CHOPPING BOARD, COOLERS, MUST BE STORED ON A BUCKET WITH SANITIZING SOLUTION IN BETWEEN USES.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • MUST REMOVE A BLOCK OF ALMOST ROTTEN RAW WOOD BEING USED TO HOLD THE PIPE UNDERNEATH THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • SEAL GAP/HOLE AROUND THE PIPES IN THE REAR PREP AREA AND ABOVE THE WATER HEATER AND MAINTAIN.

When was La Michoacana last inspected?

La Michoacana has 5 inspections on record going back to November 5, 2018.

La Michoacana vs Hermosa

Hermosa runs 35% clean across 816 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 67 mid, 466 cooked.

Against the 816 spots Cooked tracks in Hermosa, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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  cooked · November 26, 2018
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• ✓! Flat & Point
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• ? Lucky 7 Foods, Inc
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• ✓! Lucky Groceries
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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 January 28, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.