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Barbecue King Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 22, 2025
- address2148 S Archer Ave, Chicago 60616
Is Barbecue King Restaurant clean?
Barbecue King Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Barbecue King Restaurant?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Barbecue King Restaurant last inspected?
Barbecue King Restaurant has 31 inspections on record going back to February 17, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 28, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 22, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 20, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 21, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Barbecue King Restaurant vs Armour Square
Armour Square runs 75% clean across 644 tracked restaurants — 481 clean, 114 mid, 46 cooked.
Against the 644 spots Cooked tracks in Armour Square, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 September 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.