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The Great Steak
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 4, 2026
- address500 W Madison St, Chicago 60661
Is The Great Steak clean?
The Great Steak is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Great Steak?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • OBSERVED IN-USE SCOOPS STORED IN STILL, ROOM-TEMPERATURE WATER AT THE FRONT AREA CONDIMENT COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO STORE IN-USE UTENSILS ON A CLEAN, SANITIZED SURFACE OR IN WATER AT 135.0F OR ABOVE BETWEEN USES AND MAINTAIN.In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • OBSERVED IN-USE SCOOPS STORED IN STILL, ROOM-TEMPERATURE WATER AT THE FRONT AREA CONDIMENT COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO STORE IN-USE UTENSILS ON A CLEAN, SANITIZED SURFACE OR IN WATER AT 135.0F OR ABOVE BETWEEN USES AND MAINTAIN.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED NO FAUCET PROVIDED AT THE 3-COMPARTMENT SINK. FACILITY HAS SPRAY HOSE NOZZLE AT 3-COMPARTMENT SINK USED FOR RINSING EQUIPMENT AS WELL AS FILLING WASH AND SANITIZE BASINS FOR WAREWASHING. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE FAUCET AT THE 3-COMPARTMENT SINK TO ALLOW FOR QUICK FILLING OF SINK BASINS AND MAINTAIN.
When was The Great Steak last inspected?
The Great Steak has 20 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 4, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 17, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 10, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 26, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2016 | Fail |
The Great Steak vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 59% 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 June 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.