Pizzeria By Alex

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 10, 2015
• address4801 N Austin Ave, Chicago 60630

Is Pizzeria By Alex clean?

Pizzeria By Alex is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 10, 2015. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Pizzeria By Alex?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • NO MOP SINK ON PREMISES. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE MOP SINK ON PREMISES WITH RUNNING HOT AND COLD WATER AND BACK FLOW PREVENTION DEVICE.

When was Pizzeria By Alex last inspected?

Pizzeria By Alex has 4 inspections on record going back to April 3, 2015.

Pizzeria By Alex vs Portage Park

Portage Park runs 65% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 142 mid, 107 cooked.

Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, 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.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 10, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.