Armitage Ale House

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2025
• address1000 W Armitage Ave, Chicago 60614

Is Armitage Ale House clean?

Armitage Ale House is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Armitage Ale House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED MUSSELS HELD IN CONTAINER WITH NO SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED IN PREP COOLER MAIN KITCHEN. MUST HAVE SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED TO CONTAINER UNTIL LAST ITEM IS SOLD AND THEN MUST BE KEPT ON FILE FOR 90 DAYS. FOOD DISCARDED. FOOD WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 10 LBS AT A COST OF $50.00. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.critical
  Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED MUSSELS HELD IN CONTAINER WITH NO SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED IN PREP COOLER MAIN KITCHEN. MUST HAVE SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED TO CONTAINER UNTIL LAST ITEM IS SOLD AND THEN MUST BE KEPT ON FILE FOR 90 DAYS. FOOD DISCARDED. FOOD WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 10 LBS AT A COST OF $50.00. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED SPICES HELD IN WORKING CONTAINERS WITHOUT A LABEL. MUST PROVIDE COMMON NAME ON CONTAINER TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY ITEMS.
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED WET CONTAINERS STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER ON DRY RACK. INSTRUCTED TO AIR DRY CONTAINERS SEPERATELY BEFORE STACKING CONTAINERS.
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED WET CONTAINERS STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER ON DRY RACK. INSTRUCTED TO AIR DRY CONTAINERS SEPERATELY BEFORE STACKING CONTAINERS.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED DOOR ON GLASSWARE HIGH TEMPERATURE DISH MACHINE NOT FULLY CLOSING. MUST REPAIR.

When was Armitage Ale House last inspected?

Armitage Ale House has 8 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2021.

Armitage Ale House vs Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park runs 41% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 673 clean, 174 mid, 789 cooked.

Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 50% of them.

Other spots in Lincoln Park

• ✓ Armitage Ale House
  clean · May 18, 2021
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  clean · October 25, 2021
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  clean · May 20, 2026
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  clean · June 10, 2021
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• ✓ Corcoran's Grill & Pub
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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 October 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.