Grace Leavitt Fire Escape

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 8, 2014
• address2157 W Grace St, Chicago 60618
• cuisineTavern

Is Grace Leavitt Fire Escape clean?

Grace Leavitt Fire Escape is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 8, 2014. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Grace Leavitt Fire Escape?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 8, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ❓food from a questionable sourcecritical
  Adequate Number, Convenient, Accessible, Designed, And Maintained • DURING INSPECTION FOUND A SELF-SERVICE HOT DOG STATION WITH NO EXPOSED HAND SINK AND NO PREP AREA. FOUND A HOT DOG WARMER WHERE HOT DOGS ARE REHEATED WITHOUT KNOWING WHEN THE HOT DOGS HAVE REACHED 165F.ALSO FOUND SEASONING CONTAINERS ON THE COUNTER TOP UNDER THE BLACKBOARD HOLDING CELERY SALT, SALT, PEPPER, TACO SEASONING AND CRUSHED RED PEPPERS UNIT HAS BEEN TAGGED AND OPERATION CEASED.CEASE AND DESIST OPERATION. OWNER WAS INSTRUCTED TO APPLY FOR A #1006 RETAIL FOOD LICENSE. CRITICAL VIOLATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • MUST SEAL OR PAINT RAW WOODEN STORAGE CABINETS LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT AREA.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • MUST SEAL OR PAINT RAW WOODEN STORAGE CABINETS LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT AREA.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • MUST CLEAN AND SANITIZE INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • MUST SEAL OPENINGS AND HOLES AT THE CORNER OF THE BAR ACROSS FROM THE 3-COMP SINK AND THE HOLE ON THE WALL NEXT TO THE WALK-IN BEER COOLER IN THE BASEMENT.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • MUST SEAL OPENINGS AND HOLES AT THE CORNER OF THE BAR ACROSS FROM THE 3-COMP SINK AND THE HOLE ON THE WALL NEXT TO THE WALK-IN BEER COOLER IN THE BASEMENT.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • MUST INSTALL A HAND SINK AT THE BAR AREA.

When was Grace Leavitt Fire Escape last inspected?

Grace Leavitt Fire Escape has 1 inspection on record going back to December 8, 2014.

Grace Leavitt Fire Escape vs North Center

North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.

Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 December 8, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.