Toon's Bar & Grill

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 8, 2026
• address3857 N Southport Ave, Chicago 60613

Is Toon's Bar & Grill clean?

Toon's Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Toon's Bar & Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13 OBSERVED A FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEE WITHOUT A FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED THAT ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES MUST SHOW VALID PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13 OBSERVED A FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEE WITHOUT A FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATE. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED THAT ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES MUST SHOW VALID PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 4-602.13 CLEAN THE GREASE BUILDUP INSIDE OF THE DEEP FRYERS. CLEAN THE DUST BUILDUP ON THE WIRE STORAGE SHELVES IN THE FOOD PREP AREA.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.12 CLEAN THE GREASE ON THE FLOOR BENEATH THE COOKING EQUIPMENT.

When was Toon's Bar & Grill last inspected?

Toon's Bar & Grill has 23 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Toon's Bar & Grill vs Lake View

Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.

Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, 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 January 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.