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Bel-Ami Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 5, 2025
- address5530 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625
Is Bel-Ami Restaurant clean?
Bel-Ami Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bel-Ami Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • KITCHEN THREE COMPARTMENT SINK RIGHT SIDE FAUCET REPAIRED WITH TAPE. MUST NOT USE TAPE AS A MEANS OF REPAIR FOR PLUMBING LEAKS. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY REPAIR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • NOTED PEELING PAINT AND DAMAGE ON THE CEILING AND WALL IN THE UTILITY MOP SINK CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR TO BE SMOOTH AND CLEANABLE.----NOTED DIRT AND DEBRIS ON FLOOR AROUND THE ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Bel-Ami Restaurant last inspected?
Bel-Ami Restaurant has 22 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 23, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 4, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 24, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 24, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 23, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 21, 2017 | Pass | |
| October 6, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 18, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 15, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Bel-Ami Restaurant vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 44% 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 August 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.