South Of The Border

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 18, 2025
• address1416 W Morse Ave, Chicago 60626

Is South Of The Border clean?

South Of The Border is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 18, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at South Of The Border?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED THE ICE BIN INTERIOR IN NEED OF CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE ICE, CLEAN AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROPERLY STORE AND PROTECT FOOD ITEMS FROM CONTAMINATION WHILE STORED BY ELEVATING AT LEAST SIX INCHES FROM THE FLOOR ON RAISED SHELVING UNITS IN REAR.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROPERLY STORE AND PROTECT FOOD ITEMS FROM CONTAMINATION WHILE STORED BY ELEVATING AT LEAST SIX INCHES FROM THE FLOOR ON RAISED SHELVING UNITS IN REAR.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED TAPE AROUND DRAINPIPE OF HANDSINK IN MAIN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE AND REPAIR DRAINPIPE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED LOOSE DEBRIS, DIRT AND DUST BUILDUP ON THE FLOORS AND CORNERS THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND INCREASE CLEANING FREQUENCY OF FLOORS. MUST MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.

When was South Of The Border last inspected?

South Of The Border has 15 inspections on record going back to March 20, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

South Of The Border vs Rogers Park

Rogers Park runs 33% clean across 731 tracked restaurants — 241 clean, 60 mid, 426 cooked.

Against the 731 spots Cooked tracks in Rogers Park, this one comes out cleaner than 68% of them.

Other spots in Rogers Park

• ✓ Clark Grocery
  cooked · July 17, 2017
• ✓ Howard Cafe
  cooked · June 26, 2017
• ✓ Yuen's Chinese Kitchen
  cooked · January 2, 2018
• ✓ Rice Thai Cafe
  cooked · May 15, 2018
• ✓! Dollar General Store
  mid · August 28, 2020
• ✓ Idof Fresh Mediterranian
  cooked · August 28, 2019

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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 November 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.