Early Morning Delight

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 15, 2025
• address1924 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60613

Is Early Morning Delight clean?

Early Morning Delight is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Early Morning Delight?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED ITEMS STORED ON THE FLOOR ON THE BASEMENT NON-FOOD STORAGE AREA. ALL STORAGE ITEMS STORED THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT MUST BE ELEVATED FROM THE FLOOR.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED ITEMS STORED ON THE FLOOR ON THE BASEMENT NON-FOOD STORAGE AREA. ALL STORAGE ITEMS STORED THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT MUST BE ELEVATED FROM THE FLOOR.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED EXESSIVE AMOUNT OF ICE BUILD UP INSIDE THE CHEST FREEZER LOCATED IN REAR PREP AREA. MUST REMOVE ICE AND CLEAN INTERIORS OF CHEST FREEZER.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED DUST ACCUMULATION INSIDE CEILING VENTILATION VENTS IN BOTH UNISEX WASHROOMS. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • OBSERVED ONE OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED FOOD SERVICE MANAGER WITH NO PROOF OF ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT THAT ALL CERTIFIED FOOD SERVICE MANAGERS MUST HAVE OR PROVIDE PROOF OF ALLERGEN TRAINING AT ALL TIMES.

When was Early Morning Delight last inspected?

Early Morning Delight has 3 inspections on record going back to May 15, 2024.

Early Morning Delight vs North Center

North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.

Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 December 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.