Plein Air

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 13, 2025 →
• address5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago 60637

Is Plein Air clean?

Plein Air is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 13, 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 Plein Air?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training

When was Plein Air last inspected?

Plein Air has 16 inspections on record going back to January 29, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Plein Air vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 80% clean across 211 tracked restaurants — 168 clean, 36 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 211 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 November 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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