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Momotaro
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 1, 2025
- address820 W Lake St, Chicago 60607
Is Momotaro clean?
Momotaro is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 1, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Momotaro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-205.15 REPAIR THE WATER LEAK FROM THE HIGH TEMPERATURE CONVEYOR DISHMACHINE LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT DISHWASHING AREA.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.12 CLEAN THE FLOOR OF THE 1ST FLOOR PREP AREA UNDER THE PREP COOLERS AND IN THE CORNERS UNDER EQUIPMENT. CLEAN THE CEILING TILES IN THE BASEMENT FOOD PREP AREA WITH FOOD DEBRIS. • 6-501.11 REPAIR THE FLOORING UNDERNEATH THE PREP COOLER NEAR THE EXPO STATION AT THE 1ST FLOOR PREP AREA.
When was Momotaro last inspected?
Momotaro has 19 inspections on record going back to September 18, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2024 | — | |
| February 17, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 10, 2023 | — | |
| February 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2022 | — | |
| September 4, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 26, 2019 | Fail | |
| May 29, 2018 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2018 | — |
Momotaro vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 October 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.