Tropical Taste

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 8, 2020 →
• address3330 W North Ave, Chicago 60647

Is Tropical Taste clean?

Tropical Taste is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 8, 2020. 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 Tropical Taste?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Tropical Taste last inspected?

Tropical Taste has 14 inspections on record going back to February 9, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Tropical Taste vs Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park runs 77% clean across 316 tracked restaurants — 239 clean, 56 mid, 16 cooked.

Against the 316 spots Cooked tracks in Humboldt Park, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

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• ? West Chicago Fast Food, Inc
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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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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