Randolph Tavern

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 14, 2026 →
• address188 W Randolph St, Chicago 60601

Is Randolph Tavern clean?

Randolph Tavern is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 14, 2026. 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 Randolph Tavern?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• ⚠️Hot & Cold Water Available; Adequate Pressure
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used

When was Randolph Tavern last inspected?

Randolph Tavern has 23 inspections on record going back to April 17, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Randolph Tavern vs Loop

Loop runs 82% clean across 2,016 tracked restaurants — 1,619 clean, 324 mid, 43 cooked.

Against the 2,016 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.

Other spots in Loop

• ✓ Randolph Tavern
  clean · April 17, 2014
• ✓! Friends Of Washburne Culinary Institute
  cooked · January 10, 2018
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  cooked · July 31, 2018
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• ✓ Native Foods Cafe
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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.

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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 September 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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