Southside African Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 17, 2025 →
• address8311 S Baltimore Ave, Chicago 60617

Is Southside African Restaurant clean?

Southside African Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Southside African Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required

When was Southside African Restaurant last inspected?

Southside African Restaurant has 19 inspections on record going back to December 16, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Southside African Restaurant vs South Chicago

South Chicago runs 87% clean across 72 tracked restaurants — 61 clean, 9 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 72 spots Cooked tracks in South Chicago, this one comes out cleaner than 20% of them.

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• ✓ Southside African Restaurant
  clean · March 13, 2018
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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 April 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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