Baptiste & Bottle

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 29, 2019
• address101 E Erie St, Chicago 60611

Is Baptiste & Bottle clean?

Baptiste & Bottle is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on October 29, 2019. 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 Baptiste & Bottle?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 29, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • Violation Codes: 3-203.12. Inspector Comments: - MUST PROVIDE THE DATE ON ALL SHELLFISH TAGS, WHEN THE LAST SHELLSTOCK FROM THE CONTAINER IS SOLD OR SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION#:7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.critical
  Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • Violation Codes: 3-203.12. Inspector Comments: - MUST PROVIDE THE DATE ON ALL SHELLFISH TAGS, WHEN THE LAST SHELLSTOCK FROM THE CONTAINER IS SOLD OR SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION#:7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • Violation Codes:3-307.11. Inspector Comments: MUST INSTALL A SPLASH GUARD ON EITHER SIDE OF THE HANDWASH SINK ON THE COOK LINE.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • Violation Codes:3-307.11. Inspector Comments: MUST INSTALL A SPLASH GUARD ON EITHER SIDE OF THE HANDWASH SINK ON THE COOK LINE.
• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • Violation Codes: 4-302.13. Inspector Comments: - OBSERVED NO TEST STRIPS ON SITE TO ADEQUATELY MEASURE THE UTENSIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE (160F) AFTER THE FINAL RINSE IN THE HIGH TEMP DISH MACHINE. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION#:7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • Violation Codes: 4-302.13. Inspector Comments: - OBSERVED NO TEST STRIPS ON SITE TO ADEQUATELY MEASURE THE UTENSIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE (160F) AFTER THE FINAL RINSE IN THE HIGH TEMP DISH MACHINE. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION#:7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • Violation Codes:4-301.16. Inspector Comments: MUST PROVIDE A PREP SINK FOR THE FRONT FOOD PREP AREA.

When was Baptiste & Bottle last inspected?

Baptiste & Bottle has 11 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2016.

Baptiste & Bottle vs Near North Side

Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.

Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North 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 October 29, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.