Meatheads

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 16, 2019 →
• address3304 N Western Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Meatheads clean?

Meatheads is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 16, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Meatheads?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 16, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events

When was Meatheads last inspected?

Meatheads has 12 inspections on record going back to September 18, 2012.

Meatheads vs North Center

North Center runs 83% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 407 clean, 73 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

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• ✓ Egghead Diner
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• ✓ Lynn S Hallmark
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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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 April 16, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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