Pepes Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 8, 2025
• address7026 W Archer Ave, Chicago 60638

Is Pepes Restaurant clean?

Pepes Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 8, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Pepes Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • MULTI USE UTENSILS NOT INVERTED DURING STORAGE. INSTD TO INVERT (HANDLE UP) DURING STORAGE
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • MULTI USE UTENSILS NOT INVERTED DURING STORAGE. INSTD TO INVERT (HANDLE UP) DURING STORAGE
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • BROKEN FLOOR TILES NEAR 3-COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTD TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN SAME

When was Pepes Restaurant last inspected?

Pepes Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to November 12, 2024.

Pepes Restaurant vs Clearing

Clearing runs 73% clean across 157 tracked restaurants — 115 clean, 23 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 157 spots Cooked tracks in Clearing, this one comes out cleaner than 54% of them.

Other spots in Clearing

• ✓ Pepes Restaurant
  clean · December 4, 2024
• ✓ La Concha Bakery
  clean · April 9, 2025
• ✓ Palenque 2
  clean · September 9, 2025
• ✓ El Patron Pinches Tacos
  clean · December 2, 2025
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  clean · December 2, 2025
• ✓ Cipriani's
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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 August 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.