Wild Goose Bar And Grill

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 4, 2025
• address4600-4602 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625

Is Wild Goose Bar And Grill clean?

Wild Goose Bar And Grill is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 4, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Wild Goose Bar And Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • NO WRITTEN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICIES ON SITE FOR REVIEW FOR ANY EMPLOYEES. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Proper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use • NOTED EMPLOYEES MEAL IN THE REAR PREP/DISH AREA. INSTRUCTED EMPLOYEES MUST NOT EAT IN FOOD PREPARATION AREAS.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • SOME UPPER AREAS OF THE ICE MACHINE IN NEED OF CLEANING. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • MUST NOT STORE DRY FOODS, TO GO FOOD CONTAINERS UNDER WASTEWATER PIPELINES THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT DRY FOOD STORAGE AREA.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • MUST NOT STORE DRY FOODS, TO GO FOOD CONTAINERS UNDER WASTEWATER PIPELINES THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT DRY FOOD STORAGE AREA.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • ALL STORED ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT AND AT THE SERVER STATION MUST BE ELEVATED FROM THE FLOORS.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • ALL STORED ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT AND AT THE SERVER STATION MUST BE ELEVATED FROM THE FLOORS.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • MUST PROVIDE A LID FOR THE SERVER STATION ICE BIN. • MUST NOT USE MILK CRATES AS A MEANS OF ELEVATION FOR POTATOES AND STORED ITEMS IN COOLERS. • TORN RUBBER DOOR GASKET IN THE "GRILL AND SAUTE" TALL REACH-IN COOLER AND THE SMALL TWO DOOR COOKS LINE COOLER.MUST REPLACE.----BROKEN DOOR HANDLES ON TWO TALL REACH-IN COOLERS IN THE MAIN KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • EXCESSIVE RUST ON THE BOTTOM METAL SHELVING OF TWO METAL PREP TABLES IN THE KITCHEN. MUST REMOVE RUST AND MAINTAIN. • EXCESSIVE RUST ON METAL SHELVING AT THE DISH MACHINE WHERE CLEAN PANS ARE STORED. MUST REMOVE RUST OR REPLACE.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • ALL UNUSED EQUIPMENT AND UNNECESSARY ITEMS STORED THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE PREMISE TO PREVENT PEST HARBORING. ALL OTHER NEEDED ITEMS MUST BE STORED ELEVATED AND ORGANIZED. • EXTREMELY DIRTY FLOOR DRAIN UNDER THE DISH MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.----MUST PROVIDE SMOOTH AND CLEANABLE WALLS AND CEILING IN THE BASEMENT EMPLOYEE WASHROOM.----WOODEN WALL MOUNT FOR THE FRY SLICER IN POOR REPAIR WITH DAMAGED, CRACKED WOOD. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE.-----BROKEN/DAMAGED FLOOR TILES THROUGHOUT THE COOKS LINE UNDER MATTING. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR/REPLACE.
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • EMPLOYEES MUST NOT STORE THEIR PERSONAL BELONGINGS IN FOOD PREP OR FOOD CONTACT AREAS. MUST STORE IN THE DESIGNATED EMPLOYEE AREA OF THE BASEMENT.
  Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • EMPLOYEES MUST NOT STORE THEIR PERSONAL BELONGINGS IN FOOD PREP OR FOOD CONTACT AREAS. MUST STORE IN THE DESIGNATED EMPLOYEE AREA OF THE BASEMENT.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING OR CERTIFICATES FOR ANY EMPLOYEES. MUST PROVIDE.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING OR CERTIFICATES FOR ANY EMPLOYEES. MUST PROVIDE.

When was Wild Goose Bar And Grill last inspected?

Wild Goose Bar And Grill has 3 inspections on record going back to August 29, 2024.

Wild Goose Bar And Grill vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 32% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 293 clean, 67 mid, 556 cooked.

Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 61% of them.

Other spots in Lincoln Square

• ✓ Wild Goose Bar And Grill
  clean · September 16, 2024
• ✓ Asian Garden
  clean · August 25, 2025
• ✓ Kanlaya
  clean · May 8, 2026
• ✓! Mariano's
  mid · September 5, 2024
• ✓! Mariano's
  mid · September 5, 2024
• ✓ Luna Cafe
  clean · March 25, 2026

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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 September 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.