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Cafe 353
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 25, 2025
- address353 N Clark St, Chicago 60654
Is Cafe 353 clean?
Cafe 353 is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe 353?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 25, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Cafe 353 last inspected?
Cafe 353 has 19 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 16, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 25, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 15, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 10, 2018 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2017 | Pass | |
| July 31, 2017 | Fail | |
| April 12, 2016 | Pass |
Cafe 353 vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 59% 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 June 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.