Kirkwood Bar & Grill

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 30, 2025 →
• address2934-36 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago 60657

Is Kirkwood Bar & Grill clean?

Kirkwood Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 30, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Kirkwood Bar & Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices

When was Kirkwood Bar & Grill last inspected?

Kirkwood Bar & Grill has 19 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Kirkwood Bar & Grill vs Lake View

Lake View runs 79% clean across 1,124 tracked restaurants — 879 clean, 218 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 1,124 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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