Stony's Palace Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 23, 2020 →
• address8114 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago 60617

Is Stony's Palace Cafe clean?

Stony's Palace Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 23, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Stony's Palace Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required

When was Stony's Palace Cafe last inspected?

Stony's Palace Cafe has 16 inspections on record going back to October 3, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Stony's Palace Cafe vs Avalon Park

Avalon Park runs 77% clean across 156 tracked restaurants — 118 clean, 22 mid, 13 cooked.

Against the 156 spots Cooked tracks in Avalon Park, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.

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• ✓ F & M Food Mart
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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 23, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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