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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 missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • OBSERVED NO VALID CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED MANAGER ON DUTY AS REQUIRED WHILE TCS FOODS SUCH AS HAMBUGERS ARE BEING HANDLED, PREPARED AND SERVRD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER A CITY CERTIFIED MANAGER MUST BE ON DUTY/SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION CITATION #7-38-012 ISSUED
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN THE INTERIOR SIDES AND LIP OF THE ICE MACHINE.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED THE CEILING IN THE BASEMENT IN POOR REPAIR (WATER DAMAGE AND HOLES). MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
When was The Woodlawn Tap last inspected?
The Woodlawn Tap has 11 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2010.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 27, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 3, 2016 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2015 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2015 | Fail | |
| June 24, 2013 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 11, 2013 | Fail | |
| March 9, 2012 | Pass | |
| March 2, 2012 | Fail | |
| December 13, 2010 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2010 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2010 | Fail |
The Woodlawn Tap 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 13% 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 September 27, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.