Food First Chicago

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 29, 2018
• address3207 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Food First Chicago clean?

Food First Chicago is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 29, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Food First Chicago?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 29, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED ICICLES HANGING FROM THE CEILING AND ICE BUILDUP ON THE FLOOR IN THE WALK-IN FREEZER. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED ICICLES HANGING FROM THE CEILING AND ICE BUILDUP ON THE FLOOR IN THE WALK-IN FREEZER. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS BUILDUP ON THE CAN OPENER BLADE AND HOLSTER. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED FOOD SPLATTER ON THE CEILING OVER THE MAIN PREP TABLE IN THE KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED FOOD SPLATTER ON THE CEILING OVER THE MAIN PREP TABLE IN THE KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • INSTRUCTED TO STORE WIPING CLOTHS IN A SANITIZER SOLUTION IN BETWEEN USE.
  Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • INSTRUCTED TO STORE WIPING CLOTHS IN A SANITIZER SOLUTION IN BETWEEN USE.

When was Food First Chicago last inspected?

Food First Chicago has 8 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2015.

Food First Chicago vs Avondale

Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.

Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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 March 29, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.