La Paloma Grocery Store

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2025 →
• address4324 W 63Rd St, Chicago 60629
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is La Paloma Grocery Store clean?

La Paloma Grocery Store is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 23, 2025. 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 La Paloma Grocery Store?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 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
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used

When was La Paloma Grocery Store last inspected?

La Paloma Grocery Store has 9 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2010.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 9 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

La Paloma Grocery Store vs West Lawn

West Lawn runs 78% clean across 170 tracked restaurants — 130 clean, 33 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 170 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.

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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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