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Smakosz Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 6, 2025
- address5619-5621 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60630
Is Smakosz Restaurant clean?
Smakosz Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 6, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Smakosz Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE NOT LOCATED ON ICE MACHINE WATER LINE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST PROVIDE AND MAKE VISIBLE A BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE FOR ICE MACHINE.
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • NO COVERED TRASH RECEPTACLE IN WOMENS WASHROOM. MUST PROVIDE.Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • NO COVERED TRASH RECEPTACLE IN WOMENS WASHROOM. MUST PROVIDE.
When was Smakosz Restaurant last inspected?
Smakosz Restaurant has 14 inspections on record going back to May 8, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 25, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 26, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 22, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2019 | Fail | |
| May 7, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 29, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 23, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 19, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Smakosz Restaurant vs Portage Park
Portage Park runs 65% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 142 mid, 107 cooked.
Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 October 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.