Pizza Capri

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 9, 2025
• address1501 E 53Rd St, Chicago 60615

Is Pizza Capri clean?

Pizza Capri is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Pizza Capri?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED NO HAND WASHING SIGNS AT HAND WASHING SINKS IN PREP, DISH WASHING AND BAR AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE HAND WASHING SIGNS AT ALL HAND WASHING SINKS USED BY EMPLOYEES.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED BULK CONTAINERS NOT LABELED IN BASEMENT STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO LABEL ALL BULK CONTAINERS WITH COMMON NAME OF FOOD.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED FOOD ITEMS NOT COVERED AND STORED ON FLOOR IN PREP, STORAGE, BASEMENT AND WALK-IN COOLER AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO COVER AND ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR AND MAINTAIN.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED FOOD ITEMS NOT COVERED AND STORED ON FLOOR IN PREP, STORAGE, BASEMENT AND WALK-IN COOLER AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO COVER AND ELEVATE ALL FOOD ITEMS SIX INCHES OFF FLOOR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored • OBSERVED WIPING CLOTHS STORED ON PREP TABLE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO STORE WIPING CLOTHS IN SANITIZING SOLUTION BETWEEN USES.
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED CLEAN MULTI-USE POTS AND PANS STORED ON FLOOR IN DISH WASHING AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL CLEAN MULTI-USE EQUIPMENT OFF FLOOR.
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED CLEAN MULTI-USE POTS AND PANS STORED ON FLOOR IN DISH WASHING AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL CLEAN MULTI-USE EQUIPMENT OFF FLOOR.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES NOT INVERTED IN FRONT PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES NOT INVERTED IN FRONT PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED RUST DEPOSITS ON BOTTOM OF PREP TABLES AND SHELVING UNITS IN PREP, DISH WASHING AND BASEMENT AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS ON INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR SURFACES OF COOKING EQUIPMENT, PREP TABLES, SHELVING UNITS, COOLERS, FREEZERS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED NO COVERED RECEPTACLE IN WOMEN WASHROOM. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE COVERED RECEPTACLE IN WOMEN WASHROOM.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED NO COVERED RECEPTACLE IN WOMEN WASHROOM. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE COVERED RECEPTACLE IN WOMEN WASHROOM.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED DAMAGED AND MISSING FLOOR TILES AND BASEBOARDS IN PREP, STORAGE AND BASEMENT AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.

When was Pizza Capri last inspected?

Pizza Capri has 50 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pizza Capri vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 73% clean across 335 tracked restaurants — 243 clean, 69 mid, 21 cooked.

Against the 335 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 27% of them.

Other spots in Hyde Park

• ✓ The University Of Chicago
  clean · November 13, 2025
• ✓ Leona's Pizzeria, Inc.
  clean · March 5, 2014
• ? Kikuya Japanese Restaurant
  cooked · August 5, 2011
• ✓ Pepe's Mexican Food
  clean · March 17, 2016
• ✓ Cove Lounge
  clean · May 20, 2026
• ✓! Nathan's Chicago Style
  mid · June 6, 2025

See every restaurant inspection in Hyde Park →

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 October 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.