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Dark Matter Coffee
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 5, 2025
- address736-738 N Western Ave, Chicago 60612
Is Dark Matter Coffee clean?
Dark Matter Coffee is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Dark Matter Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • 4-501.11 : MUST REPAIR OR REPLACE WORN DOOR GASKETS ON 2- DOOR REACH IN COOLER.
When was Dark Matter Coffee last inspected?
Dark Matter Coffee has 12 inspections on record going back to July 3, 2014.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 15, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2019 | Fail | |
| July 15, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 24, 2015 | Pass | |
| July 3, 2014 | Pass |
Dark Matter Coffee vs West Town
West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.
Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, 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 September 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.