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Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 18, 2026
- address60 E Grand Ave, Chicago 60611
Is Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak clean?
Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • ONE CEILING LIGHT BULB COVER MISSING ABOVE SOUP PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST PROVIDE CEILING LIGHT BULB COVER FOR SAID AREA.Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • ONE CEILING LIGHT BULB COVER MISSING ABOVE SOUP PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST PROVIDE CEILING LIGHT BULB COVER FOR SAID AREA.
When was Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak last inspected?
Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak has 19 inspections on record going back to March 16, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 18, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 18, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 21, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 26, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 4, 2018 | Pass | |
| May 3, 2017 | Pass | |
| July 28, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2015 | Pass |
Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak vs Near North Side
Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.
Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.