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Hotspot Grill
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 10, 2025
- address1632 W Howard St, Chicago 60626
Is Hotspot Grill clean?
Hotspot Grill is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hotspot Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🏷️food improperly labeledFood Properly Labeled; Original Container • MUST LABEL DRY FOOD IN CONTAINER WITH COMMON NAME:SUGAR,FLOUR,ETC.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • GREASE INSIDE THE CABINET OF THE DEEP FRYER.CLEAN AND MAINTAIN
When was Hotspot Grill last inspected?
Hotspot Grill has 12 inspections on record going back to August 10, 2015.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 3, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 10, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 27, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 24, 2016 | Fail | |
| May 19, 2016 | Fail | |
| August 20, 2015 | Pass | |
| August 18, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 17, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 10, 2015 | Fail |
Hotspot Grill vs Rogers Park
Rogers Park runs 62% clean across 731 tracked restaurants — 451 clean, 128 mid, 148 cooked.
Against the 731 spots Cooked tracks in Rogers Park, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 March 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.