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Ciao! Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 17, 2025
- address939 W Madison St, Chicago 60607
Is Ciao! Cafe clean?
Ciao! Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ciao! Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 17, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Ciao! Cafe last inspected?
Ciao! Cafe has 29 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2026 | — | |
| October 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 18, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 17, 2023 | — | |
| November 7, 2023 | — | |
| December 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 21, 2022 | closed by the city | |
| November 2, 2021 | — | |
| March 8, 2021 | — | |
| January 23, 2020 | Pass | |
| October 21, 2019 | — |
Ciao! Cafe vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 October 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.