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Half Shell
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 11, 2025
- address676 W Diversey Pkwy, Chicago 60614
Is Half Shell clean?
Half Shell is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 11, 2025. 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 Half Shell?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO ORIGINAL CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
When was Half Shell last inspected?
Half Shell has 22 inspections on record going back to September 15, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 11, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 28, 2025 | — | |
| July 31, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 23, 2024 | — | |
| December 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 24, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 30, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 23, 2019 | Fail | |
| December 13, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 15, 2017 | Pass | |
| July 15, 2016 | Pass |
Half Shell vs Lake View
Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.
Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 53% 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 September 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.