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The Bad Apple
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 16, 2025
- address4300-4304 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60618
Is The Bad Apple clean?
The Bad Apple is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Bad Apple?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED HOT AND COLD WATER HANDLES AT THE BAR AREA HANDWASHING SINK TO BE EXTREMELY LOOSE, BUT FUNCTIONAL. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE HANDWASHING SINK HANDLES AT THE BAR AREA HANDWASHING SINK AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES IN GOOD REPAIR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED THE FOLLOWING PHYSICAL FACILITIES TO BE SOILED: CEILING TILES ABOVE MAIN COOK LINE (ADJACENT TO VENTILATION HOOD SYSTEM) SOILED WITH GREASE AND DUST DEBRIS, FLOOR AND WALLS BENEATH AND BEHIND EQUIPMENT ALONG THE MAIN COOK LINE HEAVILY SOILED WITH GREASE AND DRIED FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOORS, WALLS, CEILINGS, AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF GREASE, DUST, DRIED FOOD DEBRIS, OR OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.
When was The Bad Apple last inspected?
The Bad Apple has 12 inspections on record going back to February 28, 2019.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 20, 2022 | — | |
| May 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2021 | — | |
| August 8, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2019 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2019 | — |
The Bad Apple vs North Center
North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.
Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 October 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.