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Taqueria El Plan
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 14, 2025
- address2532 W 51St St, Chicago 60632
Is Taqueria El Plan clean?
Taqueria El Plan is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Plan?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED STOVE TOP AND SIDES OF EQUIPMENT WITH FOOD DEBRIS AND GREASE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED FAUCET LOOSE AT 3-COMPARTMENT SINK IN BAR AREA AND IN WOMEN'S RESTROOM. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
When was Taqueria El Plan last inspected?
Taqueria El Plan has 14 inspections on record going back to May 22, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2025 | — | |
| September 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 6, 2024 | — | |
| August 31, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 24, 2023 | Fail | |
| August 23, 2023 | — | |
| December 14, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 1, 2022 | Fail | |
| October 7, 2021 | — | |
| November 9, 2020 | — | |
| September 25, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Taqueria El Plan vs Gage Park
Gage Park runs 71% clean across 393 tracked restaurants — 278 clean, 70 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 393 spots Cooked tracks in Gage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 60% 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 November 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.