Mar Rojo

3826 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Passed re-check · Apr 28, 2025 Directions
78
Fair BiteKarma score 78 out of 100
How the BiteKarma score works

Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.

At a glance

  • Passed 5 of 7 graded inspections since 2021.
  • Last inspected Apr 28, 2025: passed with 1 violation. That was a follow-up after failing on Apr 17, 2025. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
  • Keeps coming up: Allergen training as required, cited 4 times, plus 6 other repeat issues.

Inspection history 9 visits

  1. 2025
  2. Passed Apr 28

    Canvass Re-Inspection

    1 violation
    • Allergen training as required
  3. Failed Apr 17

    Canvass

    6 violations
    • City of Chicago food service sanitation certificate
    • Allergen training as required
    • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible
    • Required records available: shellstock tags, parasite destruction
    • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
    • Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained and used; test strips
  4. 2024
  5. Passed Oct 10

    Canvass

    6 violations
    • Approved thawing methods used
    • Required records available: shellstock tags, parasite destruction
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Management, food employee and conditional employee; knowledge, responsibilities and reporting
    • All food employees have food handler training
    • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible
  6. 2023
  7. Passed Nov 6

    Canvass

    6 violations
    • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
    • Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, and cleaned
    • City of Chicago food service sanitation certificate
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Allergen training as required
    • All food employees have food handler training

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