Taqueria El Dorado

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 20, 2016
• address6952 N Clark St, Chicago 60626

Is Taqueria El Dorado clean?

Taqueria El Dorado is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 20, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Dorado?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 20, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED CUTTING BOARDS IN PREP AREA IN NEED OF REPAIR, OR TO BE REPLACED. DARK GROOVES AND STAINS ARE PRESENT ON CUTTING BOARDS. ALSO RUST ON STORAGE RACKS IN THE WALK IN COOLER. REPAIR RACKS SO SURFACES ARE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE AND MAINTAIN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED CUTTING BOARDS IN PREP AREA IN NEED OF REPAIR, OR TO BE REPLACED. DARK GROOVES AND STAINS ARE PRESENT ON CUTTING BOARDS. ALSO RUST ON STORAGE RACKS IN THE WALK IN COOLER. REPAIR RACKS SO SURFACES ARE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • OBSERVED INTERIOR SURFACES OF MICROWAVE IN PREP AREA NOT CLEAN. ALSO, INTERIOR SURFACES IN THE WALK IN COOLER ARE NOT CLEAN. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN ALL AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED STAINED CEILING TILES IN THE PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED STAINED CEILING TILES IN THE PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • OBSERVED COLD WATER KNOB MISSING FROM THE 1-COMP SINK IN THE PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.

When was Taqueria El Dorado last inspected?

Taqueria El Dorado has 7 inspections on record going back to March 19, 2015.

Taqueria El Dorado 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 December 20, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.