Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 5, 2014
• address3129 W Armitage Ave, Chicago 60647

Is Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine clean?

Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on November 5, 2014. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • FOUND 3 POUNDS OF CHICKEN AT AN IMPROPER TEMPERATURE OF 128.8F. OPERATOR VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED AND DENATURED FOOD. INSTRUCTED TO HOLD ALL POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS AT 140F OR ABOVE OR 40F OR BELOW AND TO MAINTAIN. CRITICAL CITATION ISSUED 7-38-005(A).
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NO CONSUMER ADVISORY POSTED ON PREMISES. PROVIDED A CONSUMER ADVISORY FOR FACILITY AND INSTRUCTED TO POST AND MAINTAIN.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NO CONSUMER ADVISORY POSTED ON PREMISES. PROVIDED A CONSUMER ADVISORY FOR FACILITY AND INSTRUCTED TO POST AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • FOUND TIN FOIL BEING USED AS A SURFACE LINER ON VARIOUS SURFACES THROUGHOUT KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO REMOVE AND MAINTAIN SO ALL SURFACES ARE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • FOUND TIN FOIL BEING USED AS A SURFACE LINER ON VARIOUS SURFACES THROUGHOUT KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO REMOVE AND MAINTAIN SO ALL SURFACES ARE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND TORN GASKETS ON REFRIGERATION UNITS THROUGHOUT. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO REPAIR/REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND TORN GASKETS ON REFRIGERATION UNITS THROUGHOUT. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO REPAIR/REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON UPPER INTERIOR PORTION OF ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN, SANITIZE, AND MAINTAIN. FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON REFRIGERATION GASKETS THROUGHOUT FACILITY. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON FLOORS UNDER AND AROUND EQUIPMENT AND ON WALK IN COOLER FLOORS. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON FLOORS UNDER AND AROUND EQUIPMENT AND ON WALK IN COOLER FLOORS. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • FOUND GREASE AND DUST ACCUMULATION ON EXHAUST HOODS IN KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND DUST ACCUMULATION ON VENT ABOVE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND DIRT ACCUMULATION ON WALLS OF WALK IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • FOUND GREASE AND DUST ACCUMULATION ON EXHAUST HOODS IN KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND DUST ACCUMULATION ON VENT ABOVE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND DIRT ACCUMULATION ON WALLS OF WALK IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.

When was Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine last inspected?

Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine has 6 inspections on record going back to April 22, 2013.

Garden Grill Mexican Cuisine vs Logan Square

Logan Square runs 42% clean across 1,321 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 142 mid, 612 cooked.

Against the 1,321 spots Cooked tracks in Logan Square, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 November 5, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.