Mr Salsa

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026 →
• address1025 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60613

Is Mr Salsa clean?

Mr Salsa is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. 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 Mr Salsa?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean

When was Mr Salsa last inspected?

Mr Salsa has 25 inspections on record going back to May 26, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Mr Salsa vs Uptown

Uptown runs 80% clean across 339 tracked restaurants — 267 clean, 61 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 339 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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.

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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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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