Pear Chef

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJune 26, 2019 →
• address2233 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Chicago 60616
• cuisineLiquor

Is Pear Chef clean?

Pear Chef is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 26, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Pear Chef?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 26, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present

When was Pear Chef last inspected?

Pear Chef has 1 inspection on record going back to June 26, 2019.

Pear Chef vs Near South Side

Near South Side runs 80% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 235 clean, 51 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Near South Side, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 26, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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