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Seoul Taco
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 18, 2025
- address1422 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60622
Is Seoul Taco clean?
Seoul Taco is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 18, 2025. 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 Seoul Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site, no certificate posted while handling and serving TCS foods ( chicken, beef...). Instructed manager to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • Brooms are hung too close to clean utensils rack, Instructed to install a barrier.
When was Seoul Taco last inspected?
Seoul Taco has 11 inspections on record going back to July 29, 2022.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 18, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 6, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 18, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| November 2, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 29, 2022 | — |
Seoul Taco vs West Town
West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.
Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.