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 code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used

When was Dark Matter Coffee last inspected?

Dark Matter Coffee has 12 inspections on record going back to July 3, 2014.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 12 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Dark Matter Coffee vs West Town

West Town runs 78% clean across 1,261 tracked restaurants — 971 clean, 250 mid, 29 cooked.

Against the 1,261 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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