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Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 13, 2025
- address2801 N Central Park Ave, Chicago 60618
Is Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant clean?
Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 13, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • 4-501.11 OBSERVED TORN GASKET ON DOOR OF 2 DOOR PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD CONDITION. • 4-501.12 OBSERVED CUTTING BOARD IN REAR PREP AREA COVERED IN DEEP GROOVES AND DARK STAINS INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE AND MAINTAIN SMOOTH, CLEANABLE CUTTING SURFACES.
When was Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant last inspected?
Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant has 18 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 4, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 2, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 29, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 24, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant vs Avondale
Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.
Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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 January 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.