Cooked?
The Sit Down
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2025
- address1312 E 53Rd St, Chicago 60615
Is The Sit Down clean?
The Sit Down is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 29, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Sit Down?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • MUST CLEAN THE INTERIOR OF THE DEEP FREEZERS IN THE REAR STORAGE AREA TO REMOVE DEBRIS.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • FLOORS NEED CLEANING IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS TO REMOVE SPILLS, DEBRIS AND/OR GREASE: FRONT KITCHEN BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT AND THE REAR WALK IN COOLERS.
When was The Sit Down last inspected?
The Sit Down has 18 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 3, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 26, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 23, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 26, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 6, 2014 | Pass |
The Sit Down 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.
Other spots in Hyde Park
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 April 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.