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Lago Banquets
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 29, 2025
- address6121 W Diversey Ave, Chicago 60639
- cuisineBanquet Hall
Is Lago Banquets clean?
Lago Banquets 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 Lago Banquets?
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 not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED ICE MACHINE NOT CLEAN. NOTED SLIGHT YELLOW SUBSTANCE ON TOP INTERIOR SURFACE. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE ICE, CLEAN AND SANITIZE
When was Lago Banquets last inspected?
Lago Banquets has 23 inspections on record going back to June 17, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 20, 2026 | — | |
| October 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 15, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 26, 2024 | — | |
| May 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2023 | — | |
| September 2, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 26, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 23, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 5, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 17, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 27, 2018 | Fail |
Lago Banquets vs Belmont Cragin
Belmont Cragin runs 60% clean across 787 tracked restaurants — 470 clean, 175 mid, 137 cooked.
Against the 787 spots Cooked tracks in Belmont Cragin, this one comes out cleaner than 43% 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 October 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.