Drw

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 9, 2026
• address540 W Madison St, Chicago 60661

Is Drw clean?

Drw is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 9, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Drw?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SEVERAL CONTAINERS OF SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLES (PAPER CUPS, BOWLS) IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING STORED DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR OF THE DRY/PAPER STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO RELOCATE SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLE CONTAINERS AND MAINTAIN ALL SINGLE-SERVICE/SINGLE-USE ARTICLES AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR DURING STORAGE.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SEVERAL CONTAINERS OF SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLES (PAPER CUPS, BOWLS) IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING STORED DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR OF THE DRY/PAPER STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO RELOCATE SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLE CONTAINERS AND MAINTAIN ALL SINGLE-SERVICE/SINGLE-USE ARTICLES AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR DURING STORAGE.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED HOT WATER HANDLE AT THE DRY/PAPER STORAGE AREA HANDWASHING SINK IN POOR REPAIR, LEAKING BUT FUNCTIONAL. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE HOT WATER HANDLE AT THE DRY/PAPER STORAGE AREA HANDWASHING SINK TO ELIMINATE LEAK AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES IN GOOD REPAIR.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED FLOOR BENEATH HIGH-TEMPERATURE DISH MACHINE AND 3-COMPARTMENT SINK IN THE REAR WAREWASHING AREA TO BE HEAVILY-SOILED WITH DRIED FOOD DEBRIS AND OTHER SOILS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOORS AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF DRIED FOOD DEBRIS AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.

When was Drw last inspected?

Drw has 14 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Drw vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.

Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 51% of them.

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• ✓ Naansense
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• ✓ Green Street Local
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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 January 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.