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Pepes Mexican Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address8227 S Exchange Ave, Chicago 60617
Is Pepes Mexican Restaurant clean?
Pepes Mexican Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pepes Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-204.12 UNABLE TO LOCATE THE BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE ON THE ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO LOCATE OR PROVIDE.
When was Pepes Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
Pepes Mexican Restaurant has 17 inspections on record going back to October 18, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 18, 2023 | Fail | |
| November 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 1, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 5, 2018 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 24, 2017 | Pass |
Pepes Mexican Restaurant vs South Chicago
South Chicago runs 75% clean across 144 tracked restaurants — 106 clean, 21 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 144 spots Cooked tracks in South Chicago, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.