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Taqueria El Charro
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 9, 2025
- address6661 N Clark St, Chicago 60626
Is Taqueria El Charro clean?
Taqueria El Charro is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Charro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED NO BACKFLOW PREVENTER DEVICE ON THE UTILITY SINK IN REAR UTILITY CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL TO ENSURE DEVICE CAN BE LOCATED, SERVICED, AND MAINTAINED.
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED NO COVERED RECEPTACLE FOR PROPER DISPOSAL OF SANITARY NAPKINS IN ALL-GENDER STAFF WASHROOM. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE COVERED WASTE RECEPTACLE.Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED NO COVERED RECEPTACLE FOR PROPER DISPOSAL OF SANITARY NAPKINS IN ALL-GENDER STAFF WASHROOM. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE COVERED WASTE RECEPTACLE.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED MOP IN A POSITION THAT DOES NOT ALLOW TO DRY PROPERLY AND PREVENT PEST HARBORAGE. MUST STORE MOP AFTER USE IN A MOUNTED POSITION THAT ALLOWS FOR AIR-DRYING WITHOUT SOILING AND PEST HARBORAGING.
When was Taqueria El Charro last inspected?
Taqueria El Charro has 14 inspections on record going back to May 11, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 31, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 3, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 26, 2021 | Fail | |
| March 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 28, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 21, 2020 | Fail |
Taqueria El Charro vs Rogers Park
Rogers Park runs 62% clean across 731 tracked restaurants — 451 clean, 128 mid, 148 cooked.
Against the 731 spots Cooked tracks in Rogers Park, 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 May 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.