HEATHER'S
5201 CHICAGO AVE, Minneapolis, MN
Last inspected Apr 27, 2026
Official source: Minneapolis Health Department (minneapolismn.gov) · All data sources
Failed. Did not meet health requirements at the latest inspection. Many failures are fixed and re-inspected within days — check the inspection date.
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The record, in plain English
CleanPlate holds 7 inspections on record for HEATHER'S, spanning April 2023 to April 2026 — every one straight from Minneapolis Health Department.
Its standing slipped since the previous visit — from passed to failed. A follow-up inspection usually rechecks the issues found.
The most recent inspection noted 4 violations, none of them critical.
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Inspection history
Apr 27, 2026
✕4 violations
- Keep all cold TCS foods at 41 degrees F or colder under mechanical refrigeration.
- All equipment and components must be in good repair. Keep them maintained to manufacturer's specifications.
- Use effective cooling methods to cool TCS foods.
- Stop using food contact surfaces with cracks, pits, chips, open seams or rough sections.
May 16, 2025
✓1 violation
- Provide containers for food or beverages prepared for takeout or to be eaten immediately. Containers must be reuseable, recyclable or compostable.
May 1, 2025
✕10 violations
- Keep all cold TCS foods at 41 degrees F or colder under mechanical refrigeration.
- Use effective cooling methods to cool TCS foods.
- Provide containers for food or beverages prepared for takeout or to be eaten immediately. Containers must be reuseable, recyclable or compostable.
- Discontinue removing shellstock tag or labels from original container until the container is empty.
- Maintain the identity of the source of shellstock sold or served by retaining the tags or labels for 90 days; using a recordkeeping system that keeps the tags in chronological order; and if shellstock is removed from original tagged or labeled container, the shellstock identification is maintained and shellstock is not commingled with shellstock from another container with different tags or labels.
- Remove frozen fish from the reduced oxygen package prior to thawing under refrigeration or immediately after thawing if using the running water method of thawing.
- Allow equipment and utensils to air-dry after cleaning and sanitizing; only use cloths that are clean and dry for polishing utensils that have been air dried.
- Have an item to verify the surface temperature of dishes reaches 160 degrees F inside mechanical hot water dishwashers.
- All equipment and components must be in good repair. Keep them maintained to manufacturer's specifications.
- Obtain a variance and submit a HACCP plan prior to preparing food by any method that is not in compliance with this Code.
May 8, 2024
–Apr 24, 2024
✕10 violations
- Keep all cold TCS foods at 41 degrees F or colder under mechanical refrigeration.
- The consumer advisory disclosure must include either: • A description of the food as raw or undercooked • An asterisk to a footnote describing the food as raw or undercooked
- Have a test kit for the type of sanitizer used.
- Have an item to verify the surface temperature of dishes reaches 160 degrees F inside mechanical hot water dishwashers.
- Include the following information on the food label: 1. common name of the food; 2. ingredient list; 3. quantity; 4. manufacturer name and location; 5. allergen declaration; 6. nutrition label, unless exempt; 7. fish color additives.
- All equipment and components must be in good repair. Keep them maintained to manufacturer's specifications.
- Use only chemical sanitizers on food-contact surfaces that meet Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations requirements: • Part 180, section 180.940 • Part 180, subpart E, section 180.2020
- Protect food from cross-contamination by using packages or covered containers.
- The licensee must train employees to report when they have any of the following: • Symptoms of an illness that can be transmitted through food • Infectious diseases that can be transmitted through food, as diagnosed by a health practitioner • Exposure to a suspected or confirmed disease outbreak
- Have a thin-tipped food thermometer easily available to measure the internal temperature of thin pieces of food.
May 10, 2023
–Apr 25, 2023
✕10 violations
- Keep all cold TCS foods at 41 degrees F or colder under mechanical refrigeration.
- Use effective cooling methods to cool TCS foods.
- The consumer advisory disclosure must include either: • A description of the food as raw or undercooked • An asterisk to a footnote describing the food as raw or undercooked
- Cool cooked TCS food: • Within two hours from 135 to 70 degrees F, and • Within a total of six hours from 135 to 41 degrees F or less
- The person in charge must make sure employees follow proper food safety procedures, including: • Proper handwashing • Preventing cross-contamination from bare hands • Proper cooking of TCS foods • Proper cooling of TCS foods • Proper hot and cold temperatures of TCS foods • Preventing plumbing cross connections • Properly sanitizing equipment and utensils
- Single-use gloves must be used for only one task and be discarded when damaged or soiled, or when interruptions occur in the operation.
- Clean surfaces contacting non-TCS foods: • When surfaces may have been contaminated • At least once every 24 hours for consumer self-service utensils • Before restocking consumer self-service equipment and utensils • As often as needed to keep surfaces clean
- Protect unpackaged food from environmental sources of contamination during preparation.
- Food must not come in contact with equipment and utensil surfaces that are not cleaned and sanitized.
- The person in charge must notify the regulatory authority of any complaint from a consumer having or suspected of having diarrhea or vomiting, norovirus, hepatitis A virus, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, or other enteric bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogens.
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Source: Minneapolis Health Department (minneapolismn.gov). Data shown unmodified from the official government record. CleanPlate is an independent service, not affiliated with any government agency. See something wrong? Report a data issue.
