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Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 26, 2025
- address5352 N Broadway, Chicago 60640
Is Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine clean?
Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine 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 Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED FACILITY REUSING SINGLE USE THANK YOU BAGS TO STORE RAW MEAT IN THE REACH-IN FREEZER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO NOT REUSE SINGLE USE BAGS AND TO STORE FOOD ITEMS IN FOOD GRADE BAGS OR CONTAINERS.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED FACILITY REUSING SINGLE USE THANK YOU BAGS TO STORE RAW MEAT IN THE REACH-IN FREEZER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO NOT REUSE SINGLE USE BAGS AND TO STORE FOOD ITEMS IN FOOD GRADE BAGS OR CONTAINERS.
When was Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine last inspected?
Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine has 21 inspections on record going back to April 9, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 19, 2025 | — | |
| December 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 19, 2024 | — | |
| August 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 7, 2024 | — | |
| May 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2023 | — | |
| July 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2020 | Pass |
Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine vs Edgewater
Edgewater runs 39% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 382 clean, 97 mid, 512 cooked.
Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 63% 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 September 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.