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Tacos El Rey
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 3, 2025
- address9625 S Ewing Ave, Chicago 60617
Is Tacos El Rey clean?
Tacos El Rey is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tacos El Rey?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 3, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Tacos El Rey last inspected?
Tacos El Rey has 9 inspections on record going back to March 17, 2022.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 24, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 13, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 16, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 24, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2022 | Fail |
Tacos El Rey vs East Side
East Side runs 64% clean across 189 tracked restaurants — 119 clean, 48 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in East Side, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 April 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.