Garden Gourmet Market

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJune 29, 2022
• address1130 N Ashland, Chicago 60622
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Garden Gourmet Market clean?

Garden Gourmet Market is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 29, 2022. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Garden Gourmet Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO CERTIFIED FOOD SERVICE MANAGER ON SITE, NO CERTIFICATE POSTED, FACILITY PORTIONS TCS FOOD FROM LARGE TO SMALL RETAIL CONTAINERS. INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED PACKAGED TCS (GUACAMOLE, SLAW, BLACK BEAN MIX) FOODS MISSING PROPER LABELING. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE LIST OF INGREDIENTS, WEIGHT, SELL BY DATE, ALLERGENS IF ANY, NAME AND ADDRESS OF FACILITY WERE IT WAS PACKAGED. THE PACKAGED FOOD WAS REMOVED AND DISCARDED VOLUNTARILY. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED CARDBOARD USED AS LINER ON SHELVES IN THE WALK-IN COOLER AND DISPLAY COOLERS. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE. • OBSERVED MILK CRATES BEING USED AS SHELVING THROUGHOUT THE WALK-IN COOLER AND SALES FLOOR. MUST REMOVE AND PROVIDE SHELVING THAT IS 6" OFF THE FLOOR AND PROVIDES FLOOR ACCESSIBILITY TO ENSURE ADEQUATE FACILITY CLEANING.

When was Garden Gourmet Market last inspected?

Garden Gourmet Market has 5 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2011.

Garden Gourmet Market vs West Town

West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.

Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 44% 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 June 29, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.