18Th Street Asian Bistro

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 3, 2017
• address1343 W 18Th St, Chicago 60608

Is 18Th Street Asian Bistro clean?

18Th Street Asian Bistro is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on March 3, 2017. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at 18Th Street Asian Bistro?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 3, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • FACILTIES DO NOT MAINTAIN PROPER TEMPERATURE. OBSERVED THE 2 DOOR PREP COOLER ACROSS FROM THE WOK STATION WITH AN AIR TEMPERATURE OF 44F. THE COOLER WAS USED TO STORE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS SUCH AS BEEF AND SHRIMP. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN THE COOLER BELOW 40F. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005A.
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • OBSERVED POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURES INSIDE OF THE 2 DOOR PREP COOLER. OBSERVED BEEF AT 44.1F, CHICKEN AT 43.5F, SHRIMP AT 44.1F, SHELL EGGS AT 45.7F, AND TOFU AT 45F. MANAGEMENT VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED APPROXIMATELY 5# OF FOOD WORTH $20. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005A.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED SPRING ROLLS STORED IN A CARDBOARD BOX AND FROZEN FOODS STORED IN PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO STORE ALL FOODS IN FOOD GRADE STORAGE CONTAINERS OR BAGS.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED SPRING ROLLS STORED IN A CARDBOARD BOX AND FROZEN FOODS STORED IN PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO STORE ALL FOODS IN FOOD GRADE STORAGE CONTAINERS OR BAGS.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • CLEAN THE GREASE BUILDUP ON THE VENTILATION HOOD AND FILTERS.

When was 18Th Street Asian Bistro last inspected?

18Th Street Asian Bistro has 6 inspections on record going back to July 27, 2016.

18Th Street Asian Bistro 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 0% 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 March 3, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.