The Woodlawn Tap

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 27, 2024 →
• address1168-1172 E 55Th St, Chicago 60615

Is The Woodlawn Tap clean?

The Woodlawn Tap is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 27, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at The Woodlawn Tap?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 27, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was The Woodlawn Tap last inspected?

The Woodlawn Tap has 11 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2010.

The Woodlawn Tap vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 80% clean across 211 tracked restaurants — 168 clean, 36 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 211 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 27, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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