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Garden Fast Food
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 9, 2022
- address13130 S Ellis Ave, Chicago 60827
Is Garden Fast Food clean?
Garden Fast Food is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 9, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Garden Fast Food?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 9, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Garden Fast Food last inspected?
Garden Fast Food has 15 inspections on record going back to December 19, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 10, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| March 9, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 23, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 16, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 8, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 27, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 31, 2020 | — | |
| October 31, 2016 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2016 | Fail | |
| June 4, 2015 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2014 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Garden Fast Food vs Riverdale
Riverdale runs 57% clean across 21 tracked restaurants — 12 clean, 2 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 21 spots Cooked tracks in Riverdale, this one comes out cleaner than 48% 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 9, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.