Lotus Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 9, 2025 →
• address814-816 E 79Th St, Chicago 60619

Is Lotus Restaurant clean?

Lotus Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Lotus Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Lotus Restaurant last inspected?

Lotus Restaurant has 25 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Lotus Restaurant vs Chatham

Chatham runs 71% clean across 205 tracked restaurants — 144 clean, 43 mid, 15 cooked.

Against the 205 spots Cooked tracks in Chatham, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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