T&G Restaurant is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on October 30, 2012. 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 T&G Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND RUSTY SHELF AND LEGS UNDER PREP TABLE. INSTRUCTES TO PAINT WITH NON TOXIC PAINT. DEFROST AND CLEAN THE REACHIN FREEZER HAS ICE BUILDUP IN IT AND ON TOP OF THE UMIT.
Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND RUSTY SHELF AND LEGS UNDER PREP TABLE. INSTRUCTES TO PAINT WITH NON TOXIC PAINT. DEFROST AND CLEAN THE REACHIN FREEZER HAS ICE BUILDUP IN IT AND ON TOP OF THE UMIT.
⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN THE FLOORS THROUGHOUT PREMISES ALONG THE WALLS AND IN THE CORNERS AND UNDER THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAS DUST AND DIRT BUILDUP.
Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN THE FLOORS THROUGHOUT PREMISES ALONG THE WALLS AND IN THE CORNERS AND UNDER THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAS DUST AND DIRT BUILDUP.
⚠️Linen: Clean And Soiled Properly Stored • DIRTY WIPING CLOTHS JUST SETTING AROUND ON THE COUNTER AND SOME CLEAN AND DIRTY ONES HANGING UP TO DRY. MUST STORE CLEAN AND SOILED LINEN PROPERLY.
Linen: Clean And Soiled Properly Stored • DIRTY WIPING CLOTHS JUST SETTING AROUND ON THE COUNTER AND SOME CLEAN AND DIRTY ONES HANGING UP TO DRY. MUST STORE CLEAN AND SOILED LINEN PROPERLY.
When was T&G Restaurant last inspected?
T&G Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to September 15, 2011.
date
result
score
June 24, 2013
closed by the city
October 30, 2012
Pass
September 15, 2011
Pass
T&G Restaurant vs Gage Park
Gage Park runs 71% clean across 393 tracked restaurants — 278 clean, 70 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 393 spots Cooked tracks in Gage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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 October 30, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.