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The Dock At Montrose Beach
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2025
- address4400 N Simonds Dr, Chicago 60640
Is The Dock At Montrose Beach clean?
The Dock At Montrose Beach is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Dock At Montrose Beach?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED PLASTIC CUP BEING USED AS A SCOOP IN THE ICE BIN IN THE FRONT PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO USE A SCOOP WITH A HANDLE TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION. MANAGER PROVIDED SCOOP WITH HANDLE.-COS.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED PLASTIC CUP BEING USED AS A SCOOP IN THE ICE BIN IN THE FRONT PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO USE A SCOOP WITH A HANDLE TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION. MANAGER PROVIDED SCOOP WITH HANDLE.-COS.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • OBSERVED SCOOP WITH THE HANDLE STORED INSIDE OF ICE IN THE ICE BIN BEHIND THE BAR. INSTRUCTED TO KEEP ALL UTENSILS STORED WITH THE HANDLE UP AND OUT OF FOOD ITEM TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION. FOOD EMPLOYEE PLACED SCOOP WITH HANDLE UP AND OUT OF FOOD ITEM.-COS.In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • OBSERVED SCOOP WITH THE HANDLE STORED INSIDE OF ICE IN THE ICE BIN BEHIND THE BAR. INSTRUCTED TO KEEP ALL UTENSILS STORED WITH THE HANDLE UP AND OUT OF FOOD ITEM TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION. FOOD EMPLOYEE PLACED SCOOP WITH HANDLE UP AND OUT OF FOOD ITEM.-COS.
When was The Dock At Montrose Beach last inspected?
The Dock At Montrose Beach has 27 inspections on record going back to September 21, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 14, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 8, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 6, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 21, 2021 | Fail | |
| September 5, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 29, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 27, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 16, 2018 | Pass |
The Dock At Montrose Beach 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.
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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 July 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.