Vip Chinese Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 6, 2015
• address3254 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Vip Chinese Restaurant clean?

Vip Chinese Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 6, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Vip Chinese Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • FOOD HOOD AND FILTERS ABOVE STOVE NEED CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • FOUND DRY BULK FOOD CONTAINERS ON SHELF NEXT TO COOLER WITH DRY BULK FOOD NOT LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL SAID CONTAINERS TO DIFFERENTIATE FOOD.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • FOUND DRY BULK FOOD CONTAINERS ON SHELF NEXT TO COOLER WITH DRY BULK FOOD NOT LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL SAID CONTAINERS TO DIFFERENTIATE FOOD.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND DUCK TAPE ON CHEST FREEZER AND FOUND FOOD IN PLASTIC BAGS IN 2ND FREEZER. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE DUCK TAPE AND PROVIDE FOOD GRADE FREEZER BAGS FOR FOOD.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • FOUND DUCK TAPE ON CHEST FREEZER AND FOUND FOOD IN PLASTIC BAGS IN 2ND FREEZER. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE DUCK TAPE AND PROVIDE FOOD GRADE FREEZER BAGS FOR FOOD.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND FLOOR, LOCATED UNDER THE FLOUR MACHINE TABLE, IN NEED OF DETAIL CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND FLOOR, LOCATED UNDER THE FLOUR MACHINE TABLE, IN NEED OF DETAIL CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • FOUND VENILATION FANS IN DINING AREA NEED CLEANING. ALSO FOUND HOLE IN THE CEILING OF THE HEATER ROOM AND ABOVE STAIRS LEADING TO THE BASEMENT. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE CEILING TILES AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • FOUND VENILATION FANS IN DINING AREA NEED CLEANING. ALSO FOUND HOLE IN THE CEILING OF THE HEATER ROOM AND ABOVE STAIRS LEADING TO THE BASEMENT. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE CEILING TILES AND MAINTAIN.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • FOUND NO BACKFLOW DEVICE ON ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT. ALSO FOUND MOP SINK HAS A LEAK LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A BACK FLOW DEVICE AT THE ICE MACHINE AND REPAIR THE LEAK AT THE MOP SINK.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Premises Maintained Free Of Litter, Unnecessary Articles, Cleaning Equipment Properly Stored • FOUND CLUTTER AT SHELVES OF THE FRONT SERVICE COUNTER. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN A CLUTTER FREE AREA.
• ⚠️Food Handler Requirements Met • FOOD HANDLERS REQUIREMENT NOT MET. MUST HAVE DOCUMENTATION OF APPROVED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN.
  Food Handler Requirements Met • FOOD HANDLERS REQUIREMENT NOT MET. MUST HAVE DOCUMENTATION OF APPROVED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN.

When was Vip Chinese Restaurant last inspected?

Vip Chinese Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2010.

Vip Chinese Restaurant vs Irving Park

Irving Park runs 64% clean across 804 tracked restaurants — 516 clean, 141 mid, 146 cooked.

Against the 804 spots Cooked tracks in Irving Park, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 May 6, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.