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
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

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 79% clean across 1,124 tracked restaurants — 879 clean, 218 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 1,124 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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