Joey's Red Hots

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 11, 2025
• address11500 S Western Ave, Chicago 60643

Is Joey's Red Hots clean?

Joey's Red Hots is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 11, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Joey's Red Hots?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED THE BLACK PAINTED WALL AREA OVER THE FOOD PREP STATION IN THE FRONT WITH A BUILD UP OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION OF THE FOOD CONTACT SURFACES BELOW.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED THE BLACK PAINTED WALL AREA OVER THE FOOD PREP STATION IN THE FRONT WITH A BUILD UP OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION OF THE FOOD CONTACT SURFACES BELOW.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED THE NOZZLES OF THE SLUSHY DISEPENCING UNITS IN NEED OF A DETAIL CLEANING FROM A BUILD UP OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED THE FLOORS OF THE WALK IN COOLING UNIT AND FREEZER IN NEED OF A DETAIL CLEANING UNDER THE SHELVING AND ALONG THE EDGES OF THE WALLS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN BOTH UNITS. • OBSERVED THE SIDES OF THE COOKING EQUIPMENT IN NEED OF A DETAIL CLEANING FROM GREASE SPILLAGE/SPLATTER. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED FLOORS BEHIND EQUIPMENT ALONG WALLS IN NEED OF A DETAIL CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN ALL AREAS, FRONT FOOD SERVICE AND REAR PREP AREAS.
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED AIR VENTS THROUGHOUT WITH A BUILD UP OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED AIR VENTS THROUGHOUT WITH A BUILD UP OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.

When was Joey's Red Hots last inspected?

Joey's Red Hots has 13 inspections on record going back to April 24, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Joey's Red Hots vs Morgan Park

Morgan Park runs 36% clean across 212 tracked restaurants — 76 clean, 14 mid, 122 cooked.

Against the 212 spots Cooked tracks in Morgan Park, this one comes out cleaner than 69% 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 December 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.