Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 14, 2026
• address7547 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60634

Is Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina clean?

Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 14, 2026. 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 Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED FRESH CLAMS IN CONTAINER WITHOUT SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED IN PREP COOLER. SHELLSTOCK tags or labels shall remain attached to the container in which the SHELLSTOCK are received until the container is empty. FOOD WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 5 LBS AT A COST OF $50.00. EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED FOOD. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005 CITATION ISSUED.critical
  Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED FRESH CLAMS IN CONTAINER WITHOUT SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED IN PREP COOLER. SHELLSTOCK tags or labels shall remain attached to the container in which the SHELLSTOCK are received until the container is empty. FOOD WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 5 LBS AT A COST OF $50.00. EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED FOOD. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED GREASE SPLATTERS ON WALL RIGHT NEXT TO FRYERS. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED PAINT CHIPPING ON WALL RIGHT NEXT TO FRYERS. MUST REPAIR.

When was Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina last inspected?

Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina has 15 inspections on record going back to January 6, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Raffi's Locale Italian Cucina vs Dunning

Dunning runs 64% clean across 296 tracked restaurants — 189 clean, 63 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 296 spots Cooked tracks in Dunning, this one comes out cleaner than 58% 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 January 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.