Perejil Restaurant, Inc.

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 11, 2014
• address3835 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago 60647

Is Perejil Restaurant, Inc. clean?

Perejil Restaurant, Inc. is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 11, 2014. 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 Perejil Restaurant, Inc.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 11, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ❓food from a questionable sourcecritical
  Adequate Number, Convenient, Accessible, Designed, And Maintained • FOUND NO HOT WATER AT BASEMENT EXPOSED HANDSINK. OPERATOR HAD SHUT OFF VALVE TO SINK TO PREVENT LEAKING. OPERATOR RESTORED HOT WATER DURING INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED FACILITY THAT HOT AND COLD WATER, UNDER CITY PRESSURE, MUST ALWAYS BE MAINTAINED AT HANDSINKS. CRITICAL CITATION ISSUED 7-38-030.
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO LABEL ALL BULK FOODS AND TO MAINTAIN.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO LABEL ALL BULK FOODS AND TO MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND TORN GASKETS ON REACH IN COOLER IN KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND TORN GASKETS ON REACH IN COOLER IN KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • FOUND SLIGHT DIRT BUILDUP ON UPPER, INTERIOR PORTION OF ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN, SANITIZE, AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND EXPOSED CONCRETE ON BASEMENT FLOOR. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL EXPOSED CONCRETE AND TO MAINTAIN SO FLOOR IS SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND EXPOSED CONCRETE ON BASEMENT FLOOR. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL EXPOSED CONCRETE AND TO MAINTAIN SO FLOOR IS SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Lighting: Required Minimum Foot-Candles Of Light Provided, Fixtures Shielded • INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO SHIELD LIGHTS IN BASEMENT (NEAR 2 COMPARTMENT SINK) AND KITCHEN (ABOVE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK) AND TO MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN ADDITIONAL THERMOMETERS TO ENSURE ALL REFRIGERATION UNITS HAVE THERMOMETERS.
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN ADDITIONAL THERMOMETERS TO ENSURE ALL REFRIGERATION UNITS HAVE THERMOMETERS.

When was Perejil Restaurant, Inc. last inspected?

Perejil Restaurant, Inc. has 4 inspections on record going back to October 22, 2012.

Perejil Restaurant, Inc. vs Hermosa

Hermosa runs 65% clean across 816 tracked restaurants — 527 clean, 160 mid, 127 cooked.

Against the 816 spots Cooked tracks in Hermosa, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 August 11, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.