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Tacos El Paraiso
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 6, 2026
- address3225 N Harlem Ave, Chicago 60634
Is Tacos El Paraiso clean?
Tacos El Paraiso is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tacos El Paraiso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS INSIDE OF 4-DOOR PREP COOLER IN REAR. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED TORN GASKET AT 2-DOOR REFRIGERATOR. MUST REPAIR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS ALL WALLS OF MAIN PREP AREA, REAR PREP AREA AND REAR BY THE MOP SINK. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Tacos El Paraiso last inspected?
Tacos El Paraiso has 14 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 19, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| December 13, 2022 | Fail | |
| July 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 26, 2021 | — | |
| September 8, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 1, 2020 | Fail | |
| March 11, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 3, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Tacos El Paraiso 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 38% 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 March 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.