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The Piggery
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 23, 2025
- address1619-1625 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60613
Is The Piggery clean?
The Piggery is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 23, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Piggery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED SEVERAL HANDWASHING SINKS THROUGHOUT MAIN KITCHEN AND BAR AREAS MISSING SIGNAGE NOTIFYING FOOD EMPLOYEES TO WASH HANDS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SIGNAGE TO ALL HANDWASHING SINKS AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED OPEN CONTAINER OF POTATOES STORED DIRECTLY NEXT TO HANDWASHING SINK AT THE MAIN COOK LINE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO RELOCATE CONTAINER OF POTATOES OR INSTALL ADEQUATE SPLASH PROTECTION AT THE HANDWASHING SINK TO PREVENT EXPOSING OPEN FOOD CONTAINER TO SPLASH OR OTHER CONTAMINATION AND MAINTAIN.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED OPEN CONTAINER OF POTATOES STORED DIRECTLY NEXT TO HANDWASHING SINK AT THE MAIN COOK LINE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO RELOCATE CONTAINER OF POTATOES OR INSTALL ADEQUATE SPLASH PROTECTION AT THE HANDWASHING SINK TO PREVENT EXPOSING OPEN FOOD CONTAINER TO SPLASH OR OTHER CONTAMINATION AND MAINTAIN.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED WALLS ADJACENT TO AND BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT AT THE MAIN KITCHEN AREA TO BE HEAVILY SOILED WITH GREASE AND DUST DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN WALLS AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF GREASE, DUST, AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.
When was The Piggery last inspected?
The Piggery has 17 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 3, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 13, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 31, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 1, 2021 | — | |
| February 11, 2020 | Pass | |
| March 6, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 28, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 14, 2018 | Pass |
The Piggery vs North Center
North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.
Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.