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Golden Nugget
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 12, 2026
- address1765 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60640
Is Golden Nugget clean?
Golden Nugget is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Golden Nugget?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • NOTED SERVING PLATES ON SHELVES AT THE KITCHEN PREP AREA NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT ALL SERVING PLATES AT THE DINING TABLES TO PREVENT DUST ACCUMULATION.In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • NOTED SERVING PLATES ON SHELVES AT THE KITCHEN PREP AREA NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT ALL SERVING PLATES AT THE DINING TABLES TO PREVENT DUST ACCUMULATION.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • NOTED DIRTY AND DUSTY CEILING FANS AT THE REAR AND FRONT PREP AREAS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Golden Nugget last inspected?
Golden Nugget has 23 inspections on record going back to June 3, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 12, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 2, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 25, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 28, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 26, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 24, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 17, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Golden Nugget vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, 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 January 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.