Meenari Oriental Restaurant

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 7, 2022
• address3311 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago 60659

Is Meenari Oriental Restaurant clean?

Meenari Oriental Restaurant is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 7, 2022. 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 Meenari Oriental Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL HANDSINK WITH HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER EQUIPPED WITH HAND SOAP AND HAND DRYING DEVICE ADJACENT AND ACCESSIBLE TO FRONT PREP/3 COMPARTMENT SINK AREA. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-030 (C)
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN INTERIOR SURFACES OF ICE MACHINE.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE THERMOMETER VISBLE INSIDE ALL COOLERS.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • NOTED SOME FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS WITH NO LABEL. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY LABEL FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED WITH COMMON NAME (SALT, FLOUR, SUGAR ETC).
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN INTERIOR SURFACES OF ALL COOLERS AND FREEZERS WITH GREASE AND DRIED FOOD DEBRIS ACCUMULATION IN THE KITCHEN.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • BACKFLOW PREVENTER DEVICE NOT LOCATED BEHIND ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL SO THAT IT CAN BE LOCATED TO BE SERVICED AND MAINTAINED. • INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE BACKFLOW PREVENTER DEVICE AT MOPSINK FAUCET IN THE BASEMENT.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOOR ALONG THE WALLS AND IN ALL CORNERS IN REAR PREP/COOKING AREA AND IN BASEMENT STORAGE AREA.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • FOOD HANDLER WITH NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH EMPLOYEE.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • FOOD HANDLER WITH NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH EMPLOYEE.

When was Meenari Oriental Restaurant last inspected?

Meenari Oriental Restaurant has 16 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Meenari Oriental Restaurant vs North Park

North Park runs 61% clean across 224 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 37 mid, 51 cooked.

Against the 224 spots Cooked tracks in North Park, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 April 7, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.