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King Crab House
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 22, 2025
- address1816 N Halsted St, Chicago 60614
Is King Crab House clean?
King Crab House is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at King Crab House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED GREASE SPILLS ON OUTSIDE OIL CONTAINER. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED GREASE SPILLS ON OUTSIDE OIL CONTAINER. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was King Crab House last inspected?
King Crab House has 15 inspections on record going back to February 14, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 11, 2025 | — | |
| July 14, 2025 | — | |
| October 4, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 13, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 22, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 15, 2020 | Fail | |
| February 11, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 8, 2018 | Pass |
King Crab House vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 August 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.