Brookdale Lake Shore Drive

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 19, 2025 →
• address2960 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago 60657

Is Brookdale Lake Shore Drive clean?

Brookdale Lake Shore Drive is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Brookdale Lake Shore Drive?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• ⚠️Previous Core Violation Corrected

When was Brookdale Lake Shore Drive last inspected?

Brookdale Lake Shore Drive has 17 inspections on record going back to November 15, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Brookdale Lake Shore Drive vs Lake View

Lake View runs 79% clean across 1,124 tracked restaurants — 879 clean, 218 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 1,124 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

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• ✓ Starbucks Coffee
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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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated December 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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