Taqueria Belen

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 20, 2019
• address3131 N Central Ave, Chicago 60634

Is Taqueria Belen clean?

Taqueria Belen is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on September 20, 2019. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Taqueria Belen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 20, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED NO EXPOSED HAND SINK ACCESSIBLE TO 3-COMP SINK.INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO INSTALL A EXPOSED HAND SINK NEAR 3-COMPARTMENT SINK. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-030(c) NO CITATION ISSUED

When was Taqueria Belen last inspected?

Taqueria Belen has 5 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2018.

Taqueria Belen vs Belmont Cragin

Belmont Cragin runs 60% clean across 787 tracked restaurants — 470 clean, 175 mid, 137 cooked.

Against the 787 spots Cooked tracks in Belmont Cragin, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 September 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.