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Chen's Garden
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 12, 2024
- address4445 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago 60630
Is Chen's Garden clean?
Chen's Garden is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 12, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Chen's Garden?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 12, 2024. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Chen's Garden last inspected?
Chen's Garden has 23 inspections on record going back to May 26, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 16, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 21, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 13, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 2, 2018 | Fail | |
| October 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2017 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2015 | Pass |
Chen's Garden vs Albany Park
Albany Park runs 58% clean across 828 tracked restaurants — 478 clean, 149 mid, 198 cooked.
Against the 828 spots Cooked tracks in Albany Park, this one comes out cleaner than 43% 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 September 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.