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Cultivate By Forbidden Root
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 24, 2025
- address4710 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago 60640
Is Cultivate By Forbidden Root clean?
Cultivate By Forbidden Root is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 24, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cultivate By Forbidden Root?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • MUST PROVIDE HANDWASHING SIGNAGE IN THE SINGLE CUSTOMER RESTROOM LOCATED AT THE END OF HALLWAY AND AT THE HADNWASHING SINK AT THE END OF COOKING LINE NEAR KITCHEN ENTRY.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED A SMALL AMOUNT OF BROWN RESIDUE ON THE INSIDE PANEL OF ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO SCHEDULE A CLEANING AND MAINTAIN.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED A LEAKY FAUCET AT THE THREE COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
When was Cultivate By Forbidden Root last inspected?
Cultivate By Forbidden Root has 11 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2021.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 16, 2025 | — | |
| December 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2024 | — | |
| October 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2023 | — | |
| April 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 5, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 28, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 10, 2022 | — | |
| November 2, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Cultivate By Forbidden Root 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 41% 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 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.