Newleaf Natural Grocery

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 16, 2015
• address1261 W Loyola Ave, Chicago 60626
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Newleaf Natural Grocery clean?

Newleaf Natural Grocery is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 16, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Newleaf Natural Grocery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 16, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • RUSTY SHELVES INSIDE THE WALK-IN COOLER,INSTRUCTED TO PAINT/REPLACE DISCARD WATER PAN UNDER THE PRODUCE COOLER WITH RUSTY WATER AND SURFACE HAS A WHITE FILM,INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE WATER AND MAINTAIN AREA CLEAN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • RUSTY SHELVES INSIDE THE WALK-IN COOLER,INSTRUCTED TO PAINT/REPLACE DISCARD WATER PAN UNDER THE PRODUCE COOLER WITH RUSTY WATER AND SURFACE HAS A WHITE FILM,INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE WATER AND MAINTAIN AREA CLEAN.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • DEBRIS ON TOP THE COUNTER WERE COFFEE MACHINE ARE STORED(FRONT SERVING AREA). DEBRIS AT THE BASE OF THE INTERIOR PRODUCE COOLER,INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • DUST DEBRIS UNDER THE RADIATOR IN FRONT OF THE EAST WINDOW, DEBRIS UNDER EQUIPMENTS,COOLERS ETC INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • DUST DEBRIS UNDER THE RADIATOR IN FRONT OF THE EAST WINDOW, DEBRIS UNDER EQUIPMENTS,COOLERS ETC INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Lighting: Required Minimum Foot-Candles Of Light Provided, Fixtures Shielded • BURNED LIGHT BULB INSIDE THE DISPLAY PREP COOLER,INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • NO THERMOMETER PROVIDED INSIDE THE DISPLAY PREP COOLER.INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • NO THERMOMETER PROVIDED INSIDE THE DISPLAY PREP COOLER.INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE

When was Newleaf Natural Grocery last inspected?

Newleaf Natural Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to August 13, 2012.

Newleaf Natural Grocery vs Rogers Park

Rogers Park runs 62% clean across 731 tracked restaurants — 451 clean, 128 mid, 148 cooked.

Against the 731 spots Cooked tracks in Rogers Park, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 November 16, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.