May St. Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 30, 2025 →
• address1146 W Cermak Rd, Chicago 60608

Is May St. Restaurant clean?

May St. Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 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 May St. Restaurant?

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

• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean

When was May St. Restaurant last inspected?

May St. Restaurant has 11 inspections on record going back to January 10, 2018.

May St. Restaurant vs Lower West Side

Lower West Side runs 80% clean across 699 tracked restaurants — 551 clean, 98 mid, 38 cooked.

Against the 699 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 January 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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