Pho Lily

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 30, 2018
• address5100 N Broadway, Chicago 60640

Is Pho Lily clean?

Pho Lily is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 30, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Pho Lily?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 30, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Hands Washed And Cleaned, Good Hygienic Practices; No Bare Hand Contact With Ready-To-Eat Foods. • NOTED EMPLOYEES AT THE KITCHEN PREP WHILE WEARING GLOVES MOVED TO THE DISH WASHING AREA AND WASHED HANDS WITH GLOVES ON AT THE 2 COMPARTMENT SINK, THEN REMOVED WASH CLOTHES FROM THE SANITIZING BUCKET AND RINSED IT IN THE 2 COMPARTMENT SINK, STILL WITH GLOVES ON; THEN FINALLY WENT AND CONTINUED MAKING VEGETABLE SPRING ROLLS AT THE PREP TABLE. ALL WITHOUT WASHING HANDS OR CHANGING GLOVES. DISCUSSED POLICY OF NO BARE HAND CONTACT WITH READY TO EAT FOODS WITH MANAGEMENT. MUST USE GLOVES, SOONS OR TONGS. CRITICAL VIOLATION #7-38-010(A)
• 🌡️hot/cold holding temps off
  * Certified Food Manager On Site When Potentially Hazardous Foods Are Prepared And Served • NOTED NO CITY OF CHICAGO SANITATION CERTIFICATE OR CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE WHEN POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS ARE PREPARED AND SERVED. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE AT ALL TIMES WITH THE CITY FOOD CERTIFICATE. SERIOUS VIOLATION #7-38-012
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NOTED ASSORTED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE REFRIGERATION UNITS NOT PROPERLY LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY LABEL ALL FOOD ITEMS WITH PRODUCT NAME AND/OR PREPARED BY DATE.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NOTED ASSORTED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE REFRIGERATION UNITS NOT PROPERLY LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY LABEL ALL FOOD ITEMS WITH PRODUCT NAME AND/OR PREPARED BY DATE.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • NOTED TORN RUBBER GASKET AT THE DOOR OF KITCHEN SERVICE PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN AND/OR REPLACE.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • NOTED TORN RUBBER GASKET AT THE DOOR OF KITCHEN SERVICE PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN AND/OR REPLACE.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT ESPECIALLY THE BLENDERS AND INSIDE THE REFRIGERATION UNITS....MUST ALSO DEFROST, CLEAN AND MAINTAIN CHEST FREEZER WITH HEAVY ICE BUILD UP AT THE KITCHEN PREP AREA.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOOR DRAIN INSIDE THE FRONT PREP AREA WITH DIRT AND BLACK SLIM.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOOR DRAIN INSIDE THE FRONT PREP AREA WITH DIRT AND BLACK SLIM.

When was Pho Lily last inspected?

Pho Lily has 15 inspections on record going back to March 14, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pho Lily vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 30, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.