Cardinal Wine & Spirits

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 10, 2017
• address4905 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625
• cuisineTavern

Is Cardinal Wine & Spirits clean?

Cardinal Wine & Spirits is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 10, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cardinal Wine & Spirits?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE TIGHT FITTING COVER/LID FOR ICE BIN BEHIND THE BAR.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE TIGHT FITTING COVER/LID FOR ICE BIN BEHIND THE BAR.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN INTERIOR SURFACES OF BEER COOLER (WITH MOLD LIKE BUILD-UP) BEHIND BAR.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS ALONG THE WALLS AND IN ALL CORNERS IN BAR AREA AND INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER (LIQUOR AREA)
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS ALONG THE WALLS AND IN ALL CORNERS IN BAR AREA AND INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER (LIQUOR AREA)
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL EXPOSED HAND SINK BEHIND THE BAR WITH HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER EQUIPPED WITH HAND SOAP AND HAND DRYING DEVICE OR PAPER TOWEL.---------MUST PROVIDE BACK FLOW PREVENTER DEVICE OR VACUUM BREAKER AT MOP SINK FAUCET.

When was Cardinal Wine & Spirits last inspected?

Cardinal Wine & Spirits has 1 inspection on record going back to March 10, 2017.

Cardinal Wine & Spirits 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 March 10, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.