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Lu-Lu's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 11, 2026
- address1000 S Leavitt St, Chicago 60612
Is Lu-Lu's clean?
Lu-Lu's is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 11, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lu-Lu's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 4-601.11(C): OBSERVED THE LOWER PART OF THE GRILL IN THE REAR PREP AREA WITH GREASE BUILD UP. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Lu-Lu's last inspected?
Lu-Lu's has 26 inspections on record going back to August 24, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 14, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 7, 2021 | Fail | |
| February 6, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 14, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 26, 2018 | Pass |
Lu-Lu's vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 51% 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 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.