Giordano's Pizza

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 27, 2025
• address5311 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago 60615

Is Giordano's Pizza clean?

Giordano's Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Giordano's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED RESIDUE ON INTERIOR SURFACES OF ICE MACHINE IN SECOND FLOOR STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED FOOD ITEMS STORED ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED FOOD ITEMS STORED ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored • OBSERVED SOILED WIPING CLOTHS STORED ON PREP TABLES. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO STORE WIPING CLOTHS IN SANITIZING SOLUTION BETWEEN USES.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED PIZZA BOXES STORED ON FLOOR IN PIZZA PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL PIZZA BOXES SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED PIZZA BOXES STORED ON FLOOR IN PIZZA PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL PIZZA BOXES SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED DAMAGED DOOR GASKETS ON REACH-IN FREEZER IN FIRST FLOOR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPAIR/REPLACE AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED WORN AND DEEP GROOVED CUTTING BOARD IN REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS ON INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR SURFACES OF COOKING EQUIPMENT, COOLERS, FREEZERS, PREP TABLES. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED LEAKING FAUCET ON 3-COMPARTMENT SINK IN DISH WASHING AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED DUST BUILDUP ON FAN COVERS AND INTERIOR SURFACES OF WALK-IN COOLER. OBSERVED FOOD SPILLS AND DEBRIS ON FLOOR AND INSIDE FLOOR DRAINS IN PREP, WAIT STATION AND STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.

When was Giordano's Pizza last inspected?

Giordano's Pizza has 27 inspections on record going back to November 5, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Giordano's Pizza vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 73% clean across 335 tracked restaurants — 243 clean, 69 mid, 21 cooked.

Against the 335 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 August 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.