Ryo Sushi

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 18, 2024
• address62 E Madison St, Chicago 60602

Is Ryo Sushi clean?

Ryo Sushi is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 18, 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 Ryo Sushi?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 18, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • LINENS ARE STORED IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE BROCCOLI AND ASPARAGUS IN THE SMALL FOOD PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO REMOVE LINENS AND TO NOT STORE LINENES DIRECTLY IN CONTACT WITH FOOD ITEMS.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • LINENS ARE STORED IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE BROCCOLI AND ASPARAGUS IN THE SMALL FOOD PREP COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO REMOVE LINENS AND TO NOT STORE LINENES DIRECTLY IN CONTACT WITH FOOD ITEMS.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED PLASTIC BLACK TRAYS AND CLEAR BOWLS STORED FACING UP ON THE SHELVING IN THE KITCHEN AREA AND AT THE SUSHI LINE. INSTRUCTED INVERT TRAYS TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED PLASTIC BLACK TRAYS AND CLEAR BOWLS STORED FACING UP ON THE SHELVING IN THE KITCHEN AREA AND AT THE SUSHI LINE. INSTRUCTED INVERT TRAYS TO PROTECT FROM OVERHEAD CONTAMINATION.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED TORN GASKETS ON THE INTERIOR OF TWO DOOR FREEZER AND TWO DOOR REFRIGERATOR IN THE SUSHI PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • NO DRAIN STOPPERS AT THREE COMPARTMENT SINK AND UNABLE TO COMPLETELY SEAL DRAINS. INSTRUCETED TO PROVIDE.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED WET MOP STORED INSIDE OF BUCKET IN THE REAR UTILITY AREA. INSTRUCTED TO HANG MOPS TO ALLOW TO DRY WHEN NOT IN USE. • MUST CLEAN FLOORS UNDER THREE COMPARTMENT SINK AND UNDER PREP TABLE IN THE SUSHI PREP AREA. • OBSERVED CARDBOARD BEING USED AS FLOOR MATS IN THE REAR PREP AREA. MUST REMOVE AND PROVIDE FLOOR COVERINGS THAT ARE A NON-ABSORBENT, NON-CORROSIVE, SMOOTH, EASILY CLEANABLE SURFACE.

When was Ryo Sushi last inspected?

Ryo Sushi has 14 inspections on record going back to May 28, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ryo Sushi vs Loop

Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, 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 April 18, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.