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The Reserve
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 17, 2024
- address500 W Madison St, Chicago 60661
Is The Reserve clean?
The Reserve is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 17, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at The Reserve?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 17, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • No drain board at 3-comp sink, instructed to install. • No sanitizer test strips on site for low temp dish machine, Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005.Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • No drain board at 3-comp sink, instructed to install. • No sanitizer test strips on site for low temp dish machine, Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005.
When was The Reserve last inspected?
The Reserve has 4 inspections on record going back to December 27, 2021.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 17, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 11, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 27, 2021 | — |
The Reserve 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 53% 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 December 17, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.