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No. 18 Karaoke
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 4, 2025
- address2201 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago 60616
Is No. 18 Karaoke clean?
No. 18 Karaoke is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 4, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at No. 18 Karaoke?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES NOT INVERTED AND SERVICE AREA AND STORED ON FLOOR IN STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT AND ELEVATE ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES OFF FLOOR.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES NOT INVERTED AND SERVICE AREA AND STORED ON FLOOR IN STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT AND ELEVATE ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES OFF FLOOR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED MISSING CEILINGS TILE PANELS IN THE BAR STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR, REPLACE MISSING PANELS AND/OR REPLACE THE STAINED CEILING TILES.
When was No. 18 Karaoke last inspected?
No. 18 Karaoke has 14 inspections on record going back to December 16, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2025 | — | |
| September 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 13, 2024 | — | |
| October 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 10, 2021 | — | |
| July 19, 2018 | closed by the city | |
| April 5, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 13, 2016 | Pass | |
| July 6, 2016 | Fail |
No. 18 Karaoke vs Armour Square
Armour Square runs 75% clean across 644 tracked restaurants — 481 clean, 114 mid, 46 cooked.
Against the 644 spots Cooked tracks in Armour Square, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.