Dead Bug, Dirty Kitchen Found at Endgrain: Health Inspections

Patch examined inspection reports in North Center. Information has been compiled using publicly available data published to the website of the Chicago Department of Public Health's Food Protection Program.

Restaurants and businesses can pass, pass with conditions or fail using a standardized procedure. Establishments that pass don't have any critical or serious violations. 

Those that receive 'pass with conditions' had serious violations, but the violations were corrected during the inspection. Failed establishments had serious violations that weren't correctable during the inspection. A fail rating does not mean the business's license is automatically suspended. All inspections are done on a routine canvass, unless otherwise noted.

Katerina’s Street of Dreams, 1920 W. Irving Park Road
Inspection date: July 24
Results: Pass
Violations: The inspector found a leak in the water pipe under the exposed handsink and a missing splash guard.

Jimmy John’s Sandwich Shop, 2115 W. Roscoe St.
Inspection date: Aug. 1
Results: Pass with Conditions
Violations: This visit was the result of a complaint. While there, inspectors found the restaurant running without a certified food manager on site. That earned the sandwich shop a serious citation.

Management needs to repair moldy caulking along the three-compartment sink and replace a missing drain stopper. Thermometers were also missing from the walk-in cooler.

Endgrain, 1851 W. Addison St.
Inspection date: Aug. 1, Aug. 6
Results: Pass with Conditions, Pass
Violations: On an initial visit to the restaurant, an inspector found a slimy substance dripping into the water reservoir where ice is made. Until the machine is cleaned and sanitized, the restaurant needs to use ice in bags.

The inspector also found a dead insect inside the light shield in the kitchen.

Management needs to clean the interior and exterior of cooking equipment from debris and grease along with dust build-up in the dining area.

Walls need to be finished with a surface that is cleanable and a broken rubber gasket needs to be replaced.

On a follow-up visit, the ice machine had been fixed but cooking equipment, fans and kitchen was still unclean. The walls still weren’t cleanable and the inspector still saw a dead bug inside the light shield in the kitchen.

Shiv Cafeteria, 3300 N. Campbell Ave.
Inspection date: Aug. 6
Results: Pass
Violations: The inspector found peeling paint on the walls inside the mop sink closet. Management also needs to install a splash guard in between the one compartment sink and ice maker.