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Joker's Cajun Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 18, 2022
- address131 N Clinton St, Chicago 60661
Is Joker's Cajun Kitchen clean?
Joker's Cajun Kitchen is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on May 18, 2022. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Joker's Cajun Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 18, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED NO PREP SINK ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL A PREP SINK. A prep sink is needed when the only other sink is a hand sink.
When was Joker's Cajun Kitchen last inspected?
Joker's Cajun Kitchen has 7 inspections on record going back to August 14, 2018.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| May 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2020 | Pass | |
| March 26, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 17, 2018 | Pass | |
| August 14, 2018 | Fail |
Joker's Cajun Kitchen vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 May 18, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.