Joe's Breakfast & Grill

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 4, 2026 →
• address1156 1/2 W 51St St, Chicago 60609

Is Joe's Breakfast & Grill clean?

Joe's Breakfast & Grill is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 4, 2026. 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 Joe's Breakfast & Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚿water/temperature at the sink offcritical
  No Bare Hand Contact With Rte Food Or A Pre-Approved Alternative Procedure Properly Allowed
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled

When was Joe's Breakfast & Grill last inspected?

Joe's Breakfast & Grill has 21 inspections on record going back to April 22, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Joe's Breakfast & Grill vs New City

New City runs 74% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 170 clean, 44 mid, 17 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in New City, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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