Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine

health inspection result · Edgewater · Chicago
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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.

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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.

September 26, 2025 Pass Canvass · 1 failed finding

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September 19, 2025 No Entry Non-Inspection · 0 failed findings

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December 2, 2024 Pass Complaint Re-Inspection · 1 failed finding

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November 22, 2024 Fail Complaint · 3 failed findings

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November 19, 2024 No Entry Complaint · 0 failed findings

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August 9, 2024 Pass Canvass · 9 failed findings

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August 7, 2024 No Entry Non-Inspection · 0 failed findings

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May 2, 2023 Pass Canvass · 4 failed findings

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April 21, 2023 No Entry Non-Inspection · 0 failed findings

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July 6, 2022 Pass Canvass · 3 failed findings

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June 28, 2021 Pass Canvass · 3 failed findings

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October 2, 2020 Pass Canvass · 5 failed findings

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Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 78% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 378 clean, 101 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, 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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