Town Kitchen

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 16, 2017
• address2002 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago 60616

Is Town Kitchen clean?

Town Kitchen is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on March 16, 2017. 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 Town Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 16, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🌡️hot/cold holding temps off
  * Certified Food Manager On Site When Potentially Hazardous Foods Are Prepared And Served • NO CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SERVICE MANAGER ON PREMISES AS REQUIRED WHILE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS(BEEF,CHICKEN AND P0RK) ARE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED. INSTRUCTED THAT A MANAGER MUST BE ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES. SERIOUS VIOLATION 7-38-012.
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • MUST PROPERLY STORE FOOD IN FREEZER IN FOOD GRADE BAGS FOR STORAGE.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • MUST PROPERLY STORE FOOD IN FREEZER IN FOOD GRADE BAGS FOR STORAGE.

When was Town Kitchen last inspected?

Town Kitchen has 4 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2015.

Town Kitchen vs Armour Square

Armour Square runs 47% clean across 644 tracked restaurants — 304 clean, 56 mid, 281 cooked.

Against the 644 spots Cooked tracks in Armour Square, 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 16, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.