Engine Coffee

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 21, 2025
• address1109 N Ashland Ave, Chicago 60622

Is Engine Coffee clean?

Engine Coffee is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 21, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Engine Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site while handling and serving TCS food ( steaming milk ) Instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • No Thermometer in empanada hot holding, instructed to provide.

When was Engine Coffee last inspected?

Engine Coffee has 3 inspections on record going back to April 5, 2022.

Engine 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 14% 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 May 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.