The Banana Leaf

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 25, 2016
• address1948 E 79Th St, Chicago 60649

Is The Banana Leaf clean?

The Banana Leaf is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 25, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Banana Leaf?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 25, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • INSTRUCTED MANAGER ON PROPERLY LABELING PRECOOKED FOODS WITH THE NAME, DATE AND TIME FOR FIFO
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • INSTRUCTED MANAGER ON PROPERLY LABELING PRECOOKED FOODS WITH THE NAME, DATE AND TIME FOR FIFO
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • MUST DETAIL CLEAN ALL EXTERIOR OF COOKING EQUIPMENT, PREP TABLES,CUTTING BOARDS,INTERIOR OF COOLERS TO REMOVE SPILLS AND DEBRIS.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOORS NEED CLEANING THROUGH OUT TO REMOVE DEBRIS AND SPILLS.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOORS NEED CLEANING THROUGH OUT TO REMOVE DEBRIS AND SPILLS.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • MUST DETAIL CLEAN THE WALL,FILTER ABOVE INSIDE GRILL AND AT PREP TABLES TO REMOVE FOOD SPLATTER.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • MUST DETAIL CLEAN THE WALL,FILTER ABOVE INSIDE GRILL AND AT PREP TABLES TO REMOVE FOOD SPLATTER.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Lighting: Required Minimum Foot-Candles Of Light Provided, Fixtures Shielded • NOTED LIGHT SHIELDS MISSING ABOVE KITCHEN. MUST PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN

When was The Banana Leaf last inspected?

The Banana Leaf has 20 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Banana Leaf vs Avalon Park

Avalon Park runs 72% clean across 334 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 53 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 334 spots Cooked tracks in Avalon Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% of them.

Other spots in Avalon Park

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• ✕ Hook Fish & Chicken - Fire N' Ice Steak & Lemonade
  cooked · June 1, 2010
• ✓ Carpe Diem Catering
  clean · October 13, 2010
• ✓ Wesley' S Place
  clean · June 19, 2013
• ✓! Charlie Grocery And Meat Market
  mid · August 18, 2011
• ✓ Dollar Tree Stores #3128
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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 April 25, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.