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Billy Goat Tavern & Grill
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 11, 2024
- address60 E Lake St, Chicago 60601
Is Billy Goat Tavern & Grill clean?
Billy Goat Tavern & Grill is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 11, 2024. 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 Billy Goat Tavern & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 11, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE TRAYS FACING UP AT THE COOK LINE. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE TRAYS FACING UP AT THE COOK LINE. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED LOW WATER PRESSURE FOR THE HOT WATER IN THE WOMENS RESTROOM. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
When was Billy Goat Tavern & Grill last inspected?
Billy Goat Tavern & Grill has 17 inspections on record going back to November 21, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| April 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 16, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 5, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 8, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 11, 2018 | Pass | |
| September 18, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2017 | Fail |
Billy Goat Tavern & Grill vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, 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 April 11, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.