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.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices

When was Cultivate By Forbidden Root last inspected?

Cultivate By Forbidden Root has 11 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2021.

Cultivate By Forbidden Root vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 79% clean across 379 tracked restaurants — 296 clean, 72 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 379 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 21% of them.

Other spots in Lincoln Square

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  mid · November 2, 2021
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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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