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The Medici
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 3, 2025
- address1331 E 57Th St, Chicago 60637
Is The Medici clean?
The Medici is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Medici?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🏷️food improperly labeledFood Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED BULK CONTAINERS NOT LABELED IN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO LABEL ALL BULK CONTAINERS WITH COMMON NAME OF FOOD.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BAKERY ITEMS NOT COVERED IN FRONT DISPLAY AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROPERLY COVER ALL ITEMS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BAKERY ITEMS NOT COVERED IN FRONT DISPLAY AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROPERLY COVER ALL ITEMS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED FOOD HANDLERS NOT WEARING HAIR RESTRAINTS. ALL FOOD HANDLERS MUST WEAR EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS.Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED FOOD HANDLERS NOT WEARING HAIR RESTRAINTS. ALL FOOD HANDLERS MUST WEAR EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS.
When was The Medici last inspected?
The Medici has 17 inspections on record going back to February 10, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 20, 2020 | Pass | |
| April 2, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 8, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 27, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 13, 2018 | Fail | |
| August 30, 2016 | Pass |
The Medici vs Hyde Park
Hyde Park runs 73% clean across 335 tracked restaurants — 243 clean, 69 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 335 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 September 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.