Taqueria El Palmar

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 26, 2025
• address1008 1/2 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60613

Is Taqueria El Palmar clean?

Taqueria El Palmar is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 26, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Palmar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BUCKETS OF FOOD STORED ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER AND WALK-IN FREEZER. MUST ELEVATE ITEMS OF THE FLOOR TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BUCKETS OF FOOD STORED ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER AND WALK-IN FREEZER. MUST ELEVATE ITEMS OF THE FLOOR TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION.
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED EMPLOYEES NOT WEARING HAIR RESTRAINTS WHILE FOOD IS BEING PREPARED AND SERVED IN FOOD PREPARATION AREA. MUST WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS.
  Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED EMPLOYEES NOT WEARING HAIR RESTRAINTS WHILE FOOD IS BEING PREPARED AND SERVED IN FOOD PREPARATION AREA. MUST WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored • OBSERVED WIPING CLOTHS STORED ON TOP OF COOKING EQUIPMENT AND PREP TABLES IN REAR KITCHEN FOOD PREP AREA. MUST PROPERLY STORE WIPING CLOTHS IN A SANITIZING SOLUTION WHEN NOT IN USE.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED RUSTY FOOD STORAGE SHELVING INSIDE WALK-IN FREEZER. MUST REPAINT OR REPLACE SHELVING.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED DUST BUILD UP ON CEILING ABOVE PREP COOLERS IN REAR KITCHEN FOOD PREP AREA. ALSO OBSERVED DUST BUILD UP INSIDE CEILING LIGHSHILEDS COVERS. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED PEELING PAINT ON CEILING ABOVE REAR FOOD STORAGE SHELVING IN REAR KITCHEN FOOD PREP AREA NEAR REAR EXIT DOOR. MUST REPAINT AND MAINTAIN.

When was Taqueria El Palmar last inspected?

Taqueria El Palmar has 25 inspections on record going back to March 23, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Taqueria El Palmar vs Lake View

Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.

Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.

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  clean · May 17, 2010
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  cooked · November 6, 2013
• ✓! Convenient Food Mart
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• ? Victoria Restaurant
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• ✓ Town Hall Pub
  clean · December 21, 2017
• ✓ Gold Medal Liquors
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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 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.