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Red Apple Food & Liquor
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 17, 2025
- address317 E 51St St, Chicago 60615
- cuisineGrocery Store
Is Red Apple Food & Liquor clean?
Red Apple Food & Liquor is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Red Apple Food & Liquor?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • MUST CLEAN AND SANITIZE THE BAND SAW AND MEAT GRINDER TO REMOVE FOOD DEBRIS.
When was Red Apple Food & Liquor last inspected?
Red Apple Food & Liquor has 19 inspections on record going back to March 11, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 24, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 17, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2016 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2016 | Fail | |
| December 9, 2015 | Pass | |
| December 1, 2015 | Fail | |
| August 13, 2014 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2014 | Pass |
Red Apple Food & Liquor vs Grand Boulevard
Grand Boulevard runs 67% clean across 265 tracked restaurants — 177 clean, 52 mid, 34 cooked.
Against the 265 spots Cooked tracks in Grand Boulevard, this one comes out cleaner than 66% 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 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.