Second City Meadery

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 5, 2021 →
• address4465 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60630
• cuisineLiquor

Is Second City Meadery clean?

Second City Meadery is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 5, 2021. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Second City Meadery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present

When was Second City Meadery last inspected?

Second City Meadery has 2 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2021.

Second City Meadery vs Albany Park

Albany Park runs 76% clean across 328 tracked restaurants — 248 clean, 69 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 328 spots Cooked tracks in Albany Park, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

Other spots in Albany Park

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  cooked · December 1, 2021
• ✓ City Mart Food & Tobacco
  clean · November 19, 2021
• ✓! Jias
  cooked · November 23, 2021
• ✓ Doordash
  clean · January 20, 2022
• ✓! Foremost Liquors
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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 November 5, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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