Taco Rio

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedAugust 16, 2023
• address435-485 E Riverwalk, Chicago 60601
• cuisineSpecial Event

Is Taco Rio clean?

Taco Rio is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 16, 2023. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Taco Rio?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 16, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site while handling and serving TCS foods ( chicken, fish....) instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • No paper towels provide at main kitchen hand wash sink, instructed to provide. Priority foundation violation 7038-030(c) • Obstructed hand wash sink, placing utensils in hand wash sink basin, instructed to keep hand wash sink free from any obstruction.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • Observed a food handler washing multi-use utensils with soap only no sanitizer was used at final step, instructed to wash rinse and sanitize all multi-use utensils. Priority violation 7-38-025.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • No thermometer provided in pre cooler, instructed to provide.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • Found an employee allowing a puppy dog in kitchen food preparation area. instructed not to allow dogs in food production area Priority foundation violation. 7-40-060.

When was Taco Rio last inspected?

Taco Rio has 2 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2022.

Taco Rio vs Loop

Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

Other spots in Loop

• ✓! The Budlong Hot Chicken
  mid · February 27, 2020
• ✓! Forum 55
  mid · August 10, 2018
• ✓! Jaffa Bagel
  mid · July 25, 2018
• ✓! Dos Toros Taqueria
  mid · October 10, 2019
• ✓ Chicago Kernel
  clean · April 6, 2018
• ✓ Buck's Four Star Grill
  clean · May 10, 2018

See every restaurant inspection in Loop →

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 16, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.