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Pepe's Mexican Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 6, 2025
- address3231-3237 W 63Rd St, Chicago 60629
Is Pepe's Mexican Restaurant clean?
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on March 6, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Pepe's Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • ICE SCOOP IMPROPERLY STORED. INSTD TO STORE PROPERLY AND MAINTAINUtensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • ICE SCOOP IMPROPERLY STORED. INSTD TO STORE PROPERLY AND MAINTAIN
When was Pepe's Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant has 24 inspections on record going back to November 10, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 26, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| July 15, 2025 | — | |
| March 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 27, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 9, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2019 | Fail | |
| July 11, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 17, 2018 | Pass |
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant vs Chicago Lawn
Chicago Lawn runs 64% clean across 514 tracked restaurants — 328 clean, 77 mid, 106 cooked.
Against the 514 spots Cooked tracks in Chicago Lawn, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.