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Joe's Food & Liquor
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2025
- address3626 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60625
- cuisineGrocery Store
Is Joe's Food & Liquor clean?
Joe's Food & Liquor is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Joe's Food & Liquor?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Joe's Food & Liquor last inspected?
Joe's Food & Liquor has 17 inspections on record going back to September 19, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 1, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 3, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 7, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 2, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 15, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 21, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 14, 2017 | Fail | |
| October 18, 2016 | Pass |
Joe's Food & Liquor vs Albany Park
Albany Park runs 58% clean across 828 tracked restaurants — 478 clean, 149 mid, 198 cooked.
Against the 828 spots Cooked tracks in Albany Park, this one comes out cleaner than 70% 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 October 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.