Esencia Urban Kitchen

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 8, 2026 →
• address3351 N Broadway, Chicago 60657

Is Esencia Urban Kitchen clean?

Esencia Urban Kitchen is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Esencia Urban Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 🧊cold food not cold enough
  Proper Cold Holding Temperatures
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Proper Cooling Methods Used; Adequate Equipment For Temperature Control
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices

When was Esencia Urban Kitchen last inspected?

Esencia Urban Kitchen has 20 inspections on record going back to June 28, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

Esencia Urban Kitchen vs Lake View

Lake View runs 80% clean across 1,115 tracked restaurants — 882 clean, 204 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 1,115 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 May 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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