Temax Garden Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 16, 2024 →
• address2544 S Western Ave, Chicago 60608

Is Temax Garden Cafe clean?

Temax Garden Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 16, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Temax Garden Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 16, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training

When was Temax Garden Cafe last inspected?

Temax Garden Cafe has 14 inspections on record going back to October 20, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Temax Garden Cafe vs Lower West Side

Lower West Side runs 80% clean across 699 tracked restaurants — 551 clean, 98 mid, 38 cooked.

Against the 699 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 May 16, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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