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The Fishguy Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 9, 2025
- address4423 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60630
Is The Fishguy Market clean?
The Fishguy Market is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Fishguy Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NON CONSUMPTION ICE MACHINE STORED IN SAME GARAGE WITH VEHICLE. FOOD AND FOOD RELATED ITEMS INCLUDING POTS, PANS, SPICES MUST BE STORED PROTECTED PROTECTED FROM SOUCES OF CONTAMINATION.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NON CONSUMPTION ICE MACHINE STORED IN SAME GARAGE WITH VEHICLE. FOOD AND FOOD RELATED ITEMS INCLUDING POTS, PANS, SPICES MUST BE STORED PROTECTED PROTECTED FROM SOUCES OF CONTAMINATION.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED INADEQUATE BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE ON WATER INTAKE LINE OF NON CONSUMPTION ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN REAR GARAGE. INSTALL AND MAINTAIN.
When was The Fishguy Market last inspected?
The Fishguy Market has 20 inspections on record going back to November 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 23, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 1, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2023 | Fail | |
| August 17, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 13, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 4, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 22, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 25, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 23, 2016 | Pass |
The Fishguy Market vs Albany Park
Albany Park runs 58% clean across 828 tracked restaurants — 478 clean, 149 mid, 198 cooked.
Against the 828 spots Cooked tracks in Albany Park, this one comes out cleaner than 43% 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 January 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.