Cooked?
Pockets
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 21, 2024
- address3001 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60657
Is Pockets clean?
Pockets is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on February 21, 2024. 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 Pockets?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 21, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED ONE CEILING PREP AREA LIGHT BULB NOT PROPERLY WORKING (ABOVE OVEN). INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST REPLACE WITH PROPERLY WORKING CEILING LIGHT BULB.Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED ONE CEILING PREP AREA LIGHT BULB NOT PROPERLY WORKING (ABOVE OVEN). INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST REPLACE WITH PROPERLY WORKING CEILING LIGHT BULB.
When was Pockets last inspected?
Pockets has 21 inspections on record going back to February 8, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 24, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| February 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 18, 2021 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2021 | Fail | |
| May 5, 2020 | Pass | |
| October 22, 2019 | Pass | |
| September 11, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 3, 2017 | Pass | |
| September 20, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 12, 2017 | Pass |
Pockets vs Lake View
Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.
Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, 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 February 21, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.