Tommy's Guitars & Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 21, 2011
• address2548 W Chicago Ave, Chicago 60622

Is Tommy's Guitars & Cafe clean?

Tommy's Guitars & Cafe is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on March 21, 2011. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Tommy's Guitars & Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 21, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous foods shall have calibrated metal stem thermometers, provided and conspicuous, for refrigerated and hot food units. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CALIBRATED METAL STEM THERMOMETERS FOR TAKING TEMPERATURE OF FOOD
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous foods shall have calibrated metal stem thermometers, provided and conspicuous, for refrigerated and hot food units. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CALIBRATED METAL STEM THERMOMETERS FOR TAKING TEMPERATURE OF FOOD

When was Tommy's Guitars & Cafe last inspected?

Tommy's Guitars & Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to March 21, 2011.

Tommy's Guitars & Cafe vs West Town

West Town runs 46% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 955 clean, 252 mid, 850 cooked.

Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 21, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.