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Alibaba Retro
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 3, 2025
- address5211 N Harlem Ave, Chicago 60656
Is Alibaba Retro clean?
Alibaba Retro is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Alibaba Retro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED TORN GASKETS ON 2 DOOR REACH IN REFRIGERATOR IN FRONT BAR AREA. REPLACE TORN GASKETS.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED INTERIOR OF ALL REACH IN REFRIGERATORS AND FREEZERS WITH FOOD DEBRIS AND SPILLS. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Alibaba Retro last inspected?
Alibaba Retro has 26 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 19, 2024 | — | |
| January 17, 2024 | — | |
| February 23, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| June 15, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 29, 2021 | — | |
| April 16, 2021 | — | |
| March 30, 2020 | — | |
| July 29, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 25, 2019 | — | |
| June 20, 2019 | — |
Alibaba Retro vs Norwood Park
Norwood Park runs 67% clean across 265 tracked restaurants — 177 clean, 50 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 265 spots Cooked tracks in Norwood Park, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.