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Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations2
- last inspectedNovember 26, 2024
- address120 N Canal St, Chicago 60606
Is Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo clean?
Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 26, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 26, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋no certified food manager on dutycriticalPerson In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site while handling and serving TCS foods ( chicken, beef... ) Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • Low temp dish washing machine at bar area not sanitizing at final rinse, 0ppm of chlorine obtained on test strips, machine was being used during inspection. Instructed to provide proper sanitizer concentration at final rinse. Priority violation 7-38-025.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Meat slicer not cleaned properly behind blade, food debris noted, instructed to clean and maintain.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • No splash guard between hand wash sink and clean utensils rack, instructed to install a barrier.
When was Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo last inspected?
Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo has 19 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 26, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| November 21, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 15, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 15, 2021 | closed by the city | |
| May 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 31, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 27, 2017 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Station Restaurant And Bar, Vinny's Pizza Bar, Boo vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 48% 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 November 26, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.