Red Pepper's Lounge is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on July 23, 2012. 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.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2012. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
Red Pepper's Lounge has 1 inspection on record going back to July 23, 2012.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2012 | closed by the city |
Chatham runs 62% clean across 443 tracked restaurants — 275 clean, 85 mid, 81 cooked.
Against the 443 spots Cooked tracks in Chatham, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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 July 23, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.