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Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 31, 2025
- address5648 W Diversey Ave, Chicago 60639
Is Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo clean?
Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED TWO CEILING TILES NEAR WINDOW WITH WATER STAINING DAMAGE. INSTRUCTED PERSON IN CHARGE TO REPLACE TILES AND MAINTAIN ALL CEILING TILES IN PREP AND SERVING AREA AT ALL TIMES.
When was Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo last inspected?
Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo has 17 inspections on record going back to May 27, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 8, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| October 31, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 24, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 24, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 20, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 13, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 21, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 7, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 26, 2017 | Fail |
Pastes Y Empanadas Golden Tuzo 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 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.