Ceres' Table

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 15, 2023
• address3124 N Broadway, Chicago 60657

Is Ceres' Table clean?

Ceres' Table is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 15, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Ceres' Table?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 15, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Proper Cooling Methods Used; Adequate Equipment For Temperature Control • WE OBSERVED THREE PREP COOLERS(TWO IN THE KITCHEN,ONE IN PIZZA PREP AREA)NOT IN WORKING CONDITION,NOT TURNED ON,NO FOOD INSIDE UNITS..MANAGER STATED IT BROKE YESTERDAY. ALL THE UNIT ARE TAGGED" HELD FOR INSPECTION" PRIORITY VIOLATION: 7-38-005
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • SPLASH GUARD IS NEEDED BETWEEN THREE COMPARTMENT SINK AND HANDWASHING SINK IN BAR AREA. SURFACE MUST BE SMOOTH,CLEANABLE AND NON-ABSORBENT SURFACE.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • SPLASH GUARD IS NEEDED BETWEEN THREE COMPARTMENT SINK AND HANDWASHING SINK IN BAR AREA. SURFACE MUST BE SMOOTH,CLEANABLE AND NON-ABSORBENT SURFACE.
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • CLEAN UTENSILS STORED ABOVE THREE COMPARTMENT SINK MUST BE RELOCATED, TO MINIMIZE SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION
  In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • CLEAN UTENSILS STORED ABOVE THREE COMPARTMENT SINK MUST BE RELOCATED, TO MINIMIZE SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION
• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • OBSERVED CHLORINE CHEMICAL SANITIZING DISH MACHINE NOT PROPERLY DISPENSING CHLORINE SANITIZER,0 PPM CHLORINE NOTED AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS. TECHNICIAN WAS CALLED BY THE MANAGER,BY 11:00AM ISSUED WAS REPAIRED.PRESENTLY MACHINE MAINTAIN TEMP OF 100ppm. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-025 CITATION ISSUED.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • OBSERVED CHLORINE CHEMICAL SANITIZING DISH MACHINE NOT PROPERLY DISPENSING CHLORINE SANITIZER,0 PPM CHLORINE NOTED AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS. TECHNICIAN WAS CALLED BY THE MANAGER,BY 11:00AM ISSUED WAS REPAIRED.PRESENTLY MACHINE MAINTAIN TEMP OF 100ppm. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-025 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • ACCUMULATED GREASE AND FOOD DEBRIS ON WALLS, UTILITY CONNECTIONS AND EQUIPMENT SURFACES BEHIND COOKING LINE.MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • MUST NOT USE TIN FOIL AS LINER FOR COOKING EQUIPMENT OR CARDBOARD AS LINER FOR COOLER SHELVING. MUST BE SMOOTH AND CLEANABLE
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • THREE COMPARTMENT SINK AT BAR AREA SLOWLY DRAINING.REPAIR ISSUE
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • BROKEN CEMENT FLOOR IN BASEMENT STORAGE AREA,REPAIR ISSUE WITH A SMOOTH EASILY CLEANABLE SURFACE

When was Ceres' Table last inspected?

Ceres' Table has 25 inspections on record going back to March 6, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ceres' Table vs Lake View

Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.

Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 May 15, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.