Baba's Famous Steak And Lemonade is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on December 10, 2012. 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.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on December 10, 2012. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
Baba's Famous Steak And Lemonade has 1 inspection on record going back to December 10, 2012.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 10, 2012 | closed by the city |
Washington Heights runs 63% clean across 234 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 41 mid, 45 cooked.
Against the 234 spots Cooked tracks in Washington Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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 December 10, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.