Sun Wah Bar-B-Q

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 10, 2025
• address5039-5043 N Broadway, Chicago 60640

Is Sun Wah Bar-B-Q clean?

Sun Wah Bar-B-Q is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Sun Wah Bar-B-Q?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED A SMALL AMOUNT OF PINK RESIDUE ON THE INSIDE PANEL OF ICE MACHINE IN THE REAR DISHWASHING AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED FACILITY REUSING SINGLE-USE THANK YOU BAGS TO STORE DUCK MEAT IN PRODUCE WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT NOT TO REUSE SINGLE-USE ITEMS AND TO STORE FOOD ITEMS IN FOOD GRADE CONTAINERS OR BAGS.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED FACILITY REUSING SINGLE-USE THANK YOU BAGS TO STORE DUCK MEAT IN PRODUCE WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT NOT TO REUSE SINGLE-USE ITEMS AND TO STORE FOOD ITEMS IN FOOD GRADE CONTAINERS OR BAGS.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED FACILITY USING BUCKETS AS TRASHCANS WITHOUT A LID IN THE WOMENS CUSTOMER RESTROOM. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROPER WASTECANS WITH LIDS FOR FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND MAINTAIN.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED FACILITY USING BUCKETS AS TRASHCANS WITHOUT A LID IN THE WOMENS CUSTOMER RESTROOM. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROPER WASTECANS WITH LIDS FOR FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED GREASE BUILD UP ON THE FLOOR UNDER AND BETWEEN COOKING EQUIPMENT IN THE FRONT PREPARATION AREA OF THE RESTAURANT, AND SOILED FLOORS IN THE REAR DISHWASHING AREA AND IN WALK-IN COOLERS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS TO REMOVE ALL GREASE ACCUMULATION AND WATER.

When was Sun Wah Bar-B-Q last inspected?

Sun Wah Bar-B-Q has 33 inspections on record going back to December 17, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sun Wah Bar-B-Q vs Uptown

Uptown runs 62% clean across 725 tracked restaurants — 446 clean, 137 mid, 137 cooked.

Against the 725 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 41% of them.

Other spots in Uptown

• ✓ Sun Wah Bar-B-Q
  clean · December 17, 2013
• ✓ 7 Eleven #36793 A
  clean · November 7, 2013
• ✓! 7 Eleven #36793 A
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• ✓ Pho Viet
  clean · June 8, 2015
• ✓ Slam Dunk Food Mart
  clean · June 27, 2013
• ✓ Kim Video
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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 December 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.