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Seoul Taco
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2025
- address1321 E 57Th St, Chicago 60637
Is Seoul Taco clean?
Seoul Taco is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 18, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Seoul Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN THE CEILING VENTS WHERE NEEDED TO REMOVE DUST OBSERVED ON VENTS.
When was Seoul Taco last inspected?
Seoul Taco has 25 inspections on record going back to November 20, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 23, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 27, 2023 | Fail |
Seoul Taco vs Hyde Park
Hyde Park runs 73% clean across 335 tracked restaurants — 243 clean, 69 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 335 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.