Chicago Best Food & Tobacco

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 26, 2023
• address2016 W 119Th St, Chicago 60643
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Chicago Best Food & Tobacco clean?

Chicago Best Food & Tobacco is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 26, 2023. 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 Chicago Best Food & Tobacco?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 26, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO PROCEDURES OR SUPPLIES FOR VOMITING AND DIARRHEAL EVENTS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE. PRIOIRITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • OBSERVED A OPENING AT THE BOTTOM CORNERS OF THE OVERHEAD DOOR IN THE REAR STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL TO PREVENT PEST ENTRY.

When was Chicago Best Food & Tobacco last inspected?

Chicago Best Food & Tobacco has 2 inspections on record going back to April 26, 2023.

Chicago Best Food & Tobacco vs Morgan Park

Morgan Park runs 67% clean across 212 tracked restaurants — 143 clean, 40 mid, 29 cooked.

Against the 212 spots Cooked tracks in Morgan Park, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 26, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.