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Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 23, 2025
- address6117 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago 60629
- cuisineGolden Diner
Is Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner clean?
Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 23, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • MALE FOOD HANDLER WITHOUT BEARD RESTRAINT FOR BEARD. INSTD TO WEAR EFFECTIVE BEARD RESTRAINT AND MAINTAINPersonal Cleanliness • MALE FOOD HANDLER WITHOUT BEARD RESTRAINT FOR BEARD. INSTD TO WEAR EFFECTIVE BEARD RESTRAINT AND MAINTAIN
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • BOXES OF SINGLE SERVICE UTENSILS STORED ON FLOOR IN BASEMENT. INSTD TO ELEVATE OFF FLOOR AND MAINTAINSingle-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • BOXES OF SINGLE SERVICE UTENSILS STORED ON FLOOR IN BASEMENT. INSTD TO ELEVATE OFF FLOOR AND MAINTAIN
When was Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner last inspected?
Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner has 17 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 31, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 19, 2019 | Fail | |
| September 12, 2019 | Fail | |
| November 9, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 22, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 17, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 8, 2016 | Fail |
Southwest Senior Center / Golden Diner vs Chicago Lawn
Chicago Lawn runs 64% clean across 514 tracked restaurants — 328 clean, 77 mid, 106 cooked.
Against the 514 spots Cooked tracks in Chicago Lawn, 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 April 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.