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Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026
- address814 W 18Th St, Chicago 60608
Is Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries clean?
Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries last inspected?
Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries has 16 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2022 | Fail | |
| May 20, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 4, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 1, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 25, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 8, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 6, 2018 | Pass |
Yvolina's Tamales+Groceries vs Lower West Side
Lower West Side runs 68% clean across 1,153 tracked restaurants — 775 clean, 162 mid, 205 cooked.
Against the 1,153 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 34% 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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.