Mariscos Playa Azul

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 16, 2024
• address5247-5249 W Belmont Ave, Chicago 60641

Is Mariscos Playa Azul clean?

Mariscos Playa Azul is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 16, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Mariscos Playa Azul?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • 3-602.11(A; B:1-4,6,7; C; D) OBSERVED PACKAGED DESSERTS IN GRAB AND GO DISPLAY COOLER NOT PROPERLY LABELED WITH INGREDIENTS, NET WEIGHT, ALLERGENS, BUSINESS NAME AND ADDRESS. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO PROPERLY LABEL ALL PACKAGED FOODS IN GRAB AND GO DISPLAY COOLER AND MAINTAIN.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • 4-101.19 OBSERVED FOIL BEING USED AS LINER ON PREP SURFACES THROUGHOUT THE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO REMOVE FOIL AND ENSURE ALL NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES REMAIN SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE AND MAINTAIN.

When was Mariscos Playa Azul last inspected?

Mariscos Playa Azul has 19 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Mariscos Playa Azul 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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  clean · February 15, 2017
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• ✓! Supermercado La Villa
  mid · May 30, 2019
• ✓! Somethin' Sweet
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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 September 16, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.