Essence Of India

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 19, 2025 →
• address4601 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625

Is Essence Of India clean?

Essence Of India is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 19, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Essence Of India?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training

When was Essence Of India last inspected?

Essence Of India has 18 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Essence Of India 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.

Other spots in Lincoln Square

• ✓ Budackis Drive-In Hot Dogs
  clean · September 17, 2019
• ? Krazy Kabob Inc
  cooked · May 8, 2012
• ✓ Eagle Fruit & Grocery Co
  clean · December 18, 2017
• ? El Tipico
  cooked · November 26, 2012
• ? The Rail Bar & Grill
  cooked · August 9, 2012
• ? Papa Giorgio's Pizzeria Inc.
  cooked · August 28, 2012

See every restaurant inspection in Lincoln Square →

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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.