Cooked?Trotter's Restaurant
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2025 →
- address816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago 60614
Is Trotter's Restaurant clean?
Trotter's Restaurant is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 19, 2025. 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 Trotter's Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcriticalManagement, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required
When was Trotter's Restaurant last inspected?
Trotter's Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to March 4, 2025.
March 19, 2025 Pass w/ Conditions
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View full inspection →Trotter's Restaurant vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 78% clean across 892 tracked restaurants — 687 clean, 174 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 892 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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.
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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 March 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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