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Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 17, 2025
- address2401 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago 60614
Is Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant clean?
Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required • OBSERVED ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATES MISSING FOR 2 CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS. MUST PROVIDE ALLERGEN TRAINING FOR ALL CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS.
When was Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant last inspected?
Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant has 10 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2017.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 3, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 26, 2024 | — | |
| September 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 12, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 26, 2019 | Pass | |
| December 23, 2019 | Fail | |
| July 13, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 12, 2017 | Pass |
Theater On The Lake/The Lakefront Restaurant vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 November 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.