Side Street Saloon

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 5, 2025 →
• address1456 W George St, Chicago 60657

Is Side Street Saloon clean?

Side Street Saloon is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Side Street Saloon?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean

When was Side Street Saloon last inspected?

Side Street Saloon has 22 inspections on record going back to July 12, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Side Street Saloon vs Lake View

Lake View runs 79% clean across 1,124 tracked restaurants — 879 clean, 218 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 1,124 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 August 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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