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Talay
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026
- address1222 W Madison St, Chicago 60607
Is Talay clean?
Talay is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Talay?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • LEAK AT HANDWASH SINK IN REAR PREP AREA. INSTD TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN
When was Talay last inspected?
Talay has 22 inspections on record going back to January 22, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 14, 2026 | — | |
| February 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 10, 2026 | — | |
| July 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 17, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 3, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| March 4, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 9, 2021 | — | |
| July 12, 2019 | Pass |
Talay vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 51% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.