The Piggery

• official resultPass
• resultPass
• inspection typeCanvass
• failed findings3
• critical findings0

← Back to the current restaurant page

Failed findings

• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Official wording: Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: OBSERVED FRYERS ON COOKING LINE UNCLEAN WITH HEAVY GREASE ACCUMULATION. OBSERVED SHELF ON COOKING LINE UNDER HOT HOLDING UNIT UNCLEAN WITH GREASE AND FOOD SPILLS. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED INTERIOR OF ICE CREAM COOLER UNCLEAN WITH FOOD SPILLS. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED FAN COVERS IN WALK IN COOLER WITH DUST ACCUMULATION. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  code 49
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Official wording: Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
  Inspector note: OBSERVED FAUCET ON 3 COMPARTMENT SINK IS LOOSE. REPAIR FAUCET AND MAINTAIN 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. • OBSERVED BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE COULD NOT BE LOCATED ON THE WATER INTAKE LINE FOR THE COFFEE MACHINE. ISNTALL AND MAINTAIN.
  code 51
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Official wording: Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
  Inspector note: OBSERVED FLOORS ON COOKING LINE UNCLEAN WITH EXCESSIVE FOOD SPILLS AND GREASE ACCUMULATION. ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT MUST BE PULLED AWAY FROM WALLS AND FLOORS NEED TO BE CLEANED IN DETAIL AND MAINTAINED. OBSERVED FLOORS IN BASEMENT UNCLEAN. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS IN BASEMENT. • OBSERVED CEILING IN BASEMENT DRY STORAGE WITH OPENINGS IN CEILING. REPAIR AND MAINTAIN CEILING.
  code 55

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass w/ Conditions on March 6, 2019: 3 findings recurred. 6 previous findings did not recur.

Browse this restaurant's inspections

More restaurants in North Center

• ✓ The Piggery
  clean · 1619-1625 W Irving Park Rd · inspected November 18, 2014
• ✓ Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
  clean · 4340 N Lincoln Ave · inspected March 7, 2025
• ✓ Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
  clean · 4340 N Lincoln Ave · inspected April 27, 2015
• ✓! Machu Picchu
  cooked · 3856 N Ashland Ave · inspected June 10, 2019
• ✓ Via Lima Restaurant
  cooked · 4024 N Lincoln Ave · inspected April 12, 2017
• ✓ Via Lima Restaurant
  clean · 4024 N Lincoln Ave · inspected April 7, 2015

See every restaurant in North Center →

About this record

This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Chicago Data Portal.