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Pantanos Restaurant Chicago
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 23, 2026
- address2519-2523 W 63Rd St, Chicago 60629
Is Pantanos Restaurant Chicago clean?
Pantanos Restaurant Chicago is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 23, 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 Pantanos Restaurant Chicago?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site, no certificate posted while handling and serving TCS foods ( chicken, beef...) instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
When was Pantanos Restaurant Chicago last inspected?
Pantanos Restaurant Chicago has 7 inspections on record going back to March 30, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2026 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 16, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 24, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| April 18, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 30, 2023 | Fail |
Pantanos Restaurant Chicago vs Chicago Lawn
Chicago Lawn runs 28% clean across 514 tracked restaurants — 145 clean, 34 mid, 332 cooked.
Against the 514 spots Cooked tracks in Chicago Lawn, this one comes out cleaner than 66% 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 April 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.