Empirical Brewery

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 28, 2015 →
• address1801 W Foster Ave, Chicago 60640

Is Empirical Brewery clean?

Empirical Brewery is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 28, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Empirical Brewery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods

When was Empirical Brewery last inspected?

Empirical Brewery has 2 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2015.

Empirical Brewery vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 79% clean across 379 tracked restaurants — 296 clean, 72 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 379 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, 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 October 28, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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