Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 18, 2019
• address3859 W 26Th St, Chicago 60623

Is Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor clean?

Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 18, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • NO PROCEDURE FOR RESPONDING TO VOMITING AND DIARRHEAL EVENTS. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON SITE. PRIORITY VIOLATION 7-38-005.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • NO HANDWASH SIGNS AT HANDWASH SINKS. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN SAME.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • NO SPLASHGUARD INBETWEEN HANDWASH SINK AND 3-COMAPARTMENT SINK. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN SAME.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • NO SPLASHGUARD INBETWEEN HANDWASH SINK AND 3-COMAPARTMENT SINK. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN SAME.

When was Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor last inspected?

Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor has 3 inspections on record going back to January 25, 2019.

Lo Mejor De Lo Mejor vs South Lawndale

South Lawndale runs 64% clean across 668 tracked restaurants — 427 clean, 92 mid, 146 cooked.

Against the 668 spots Cooked tracks in South Lawndale, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 March 18, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.