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Spoon Thai Cuisine
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 17, 2023
- address4608 N Western Ave, Chicago 60625
Is Spoon Thai Cuisine clean?
Spoon Thai Cuisine is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 17, 2023. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Spoon Thai Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 4-601.11(C) OBSERVED HEAVY GREASE BUILD UP AROUND COOKING EQUIPMENT IN GRIDDLE AND FRYER AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT AND SURROUNDING EQUIPMENT INCLUDING HOODS. • 4-602.13 OBSERVED SOILED GREASE TRAP ON FLOOR IN GRIDDLE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.11 OBSERVED HOLES IN CEILING IN GARAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO SEAL ALL HOLES IN CEILING. • 6-501.13 OBSERVED GREASE AND DEBRIS BUILD UP ON FLOORS AROUND KITCHEN EQUIPMENT INCLUDING COOLERS, GRIDDLE AND FRYER. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN.
When was Spoon Thai Cuisine last inspected?
Spoon Thai Cuisine has 19 inspections on record going back to May 3, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| April 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 24, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 29, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 31, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 25, 2019 | Fail | |
| April 19, 2018 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 3, 2017 | Fail |
Spoon Thai Cuisine vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 17, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.