Real Kitchen

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 30, 2013
• address1433 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60613

Is Real Kitchen clean?

Real Kitchen is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 30, 2013. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Real Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 30, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • MUST LABEL AND DATE ALL COOKED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE FRONT PREP COOLERS.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • MUST LABEL AND DATE ALL COOKED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE FRONT PREP COOLERS.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • DETAIL CLEAN INTERIOUS OF ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN REAR FOOD STORAGE AREA.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • DETAIL CLEAN INTERIOUS OF ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN REAR FOOD STORAGE AREA.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • MUST REPAIR SLOW DRAINING AT EXPOSED HAND SINK IN FRONT SERVICE AREA AND REAR PREP AREA HAND SINKS.
• ⚠️Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • WIPING CLOTHS MUST BE HELD IN A CLEAN CONTAINER WITH A SANITIZING SOLUTION.
  Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • WIPING CLOTHS MUST BE HELD IN A CLEAN CONTAINER WITH A SANITIZING SOLUTION.

When was Real Kitchen last inspected?

Real Kitchen has 5 inspections on record going back to March 3, 2011.

Real Kitchen vs Uptown

Uptown runs 62% clean across 725 tracked restaurants — 446 clean, 137 mid, 137 cooked.

Against the 725 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 41% 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 30, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.