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Panda Express
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 7, 2025
- address2949 W Addison Ave, Chicago 60618
Is Panda Express clean?
Panda Express is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Panda Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED ACCUMULATED DIRT AND FOOD DEBRIS ON FLOORS AND UNDERNEATH STORAGE SHELVES IN WALK-IN COOLER.---ALSO OBSERVED DITY FLOOR DRAIN UNDERNEATH THE ONE COMPARTMENT SINK IN THE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO CLEAN FLOOR DRAIN AND FLOOR IN WALK-IN COOLER AND MAINTAIN.
When was Panda Express last inspected?
Panda Express has 18 inspections on record going back to October 16, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 11, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 16, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 14, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 12, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 27, 2018 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2018 | Fail | |
| March 27, 2018 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2017 | Pass |
Panda Express vs Avondale
Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.
Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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 March 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.