# Chicago Restaurants: Ranked — Food Map & Health Grades A–F > Food Map & Health Grades A–F (iPhone/iPad app by NICHOLAS D SODERSTROM.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chicago-restaurants-ranked/id6816931379 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [NICHOLAS D SODERSTROM](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814555256) - Category: Food & Drink, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-02 - Data updated: 2026-11-05 ## What is Chicago Restaurants? An independent guide to nearly every Chicago restaurant, ranked on public inspection records. Check a restaurant's record before you eat there. Chicago Restaurants: Ranked gives 7,000+ Chicago restaurants our own A–F grade from the City's inspection records, ranks them on lists from Cleanest Kitchens to Chicago Icons, and puts them on a map. Not affiliated with the City of Chicago. Free. No ads, no account, no analytics. The app collects nothing; your saved places and location stay on your device. WHAT YOU GET • A home screen of lists: Cleanest Kitchens, Hot Dogs & Beef, Michelin & Beard, Chicago Icons, Oldest Places, Newest Openings, Inspection Watch, Building Value and Top Sales, plus boards for the lowest inspection scores and pest citations. • Our A–F grade and 0–100 score for each restaurant with a completed City inspection since 2023, from City of Chicago inspection results, refreshed about weekly without an app update. • The record behind the grade: visits, failed inspections, pest citations, serious violations per visit, passes with conditions, and the last visit's date and result, with a link to the City's records. • Filters: side of the city, neighborhood, cuisine, grade, serves alcohol, dining room and hide chains. • A map with pins colored by grade, and "near me" if you allow location. • Search by name, street, neighborhood, cuisine or ZIP. • Place pages: licenses, the year it opened (or its first City record) at its address, building value, honors, directions, website, share and a link to report a problem. • The rest of Illinois: thousands of restaurants in hundreds of other towns as map listings, with no grades (there's no inspection data outside Chicago). HOW THE GRADE WORKS Chicago doesn't give restaurants letter grades. The City records each inspection as Pass, Pass with Conditions or Fail. We score each restaurant on its inspections since January 2023: failed inspections, pest citations, serious food-safety violations and violations per visit, passes with conditions, and whether its last visit failed. Places with few visits are pulled toward the city average. An F needs a failed inspection or a pest citation. An A needs no failures. The grade is ours, not an official City of Chicago grade. It describes past inspections, not today's kitchen, so check the City's record when it matters. PRIVACY Location is optional, asked for only when you tap a near-me button or the map's location arrow, and used only on your device to show you on the map and sort places by distance. Data updates send no location, identifiers or usage data. DATA SOURCES City of Chicago Food Inspections and Business Licenses, refreshed about weekly. Cook County Assessor 2025 property values. Honors from the MICHELIN Guide Chicago 2025 and the James Beard Foundation, checked by hand. Published sales from Restaurant Business's Top 100 Independents. Opening years from verified histories, otherwise the first City record. Places data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0, Apache 2.0, CC0). Maps and directions by Apple. Independent app: not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Public Health, Cook County, the MICHELIN Guide or the James Beard Foundation. MICHELIN is a trademark of Michelin; James Beard Foundation is a trademark of the James Beard Foundation. City of Chicago data disclaimer: This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk. Help and corrections: nick@eatsranked.com or https://chicago.eatsranked.com/support.html Privacy policy: https://chicago.eatsranked.com/privacy.html ## Is Chicago Restaurants safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Chicago Restaurants. ## Is Chicago Restaurants legit? Chicago Restaurants: Ranked has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chicago Restaurants is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 1.0 — 2026-11-03 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-05.*