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Kitchen + Kocktails
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 11, 2025
- address444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago 60611
Is Kitchen + Kocktails clean?
Kitchen + Kocktails is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 11, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Kitchen + Kocktails?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED HOT HOLDING UNIT WARMING BOX EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE DISPLAY LOCATED BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF DOOR INACCURATE AND NOT PROPERLY FUNCTIONING. INTERNAL AMBIENT AIR THERMOMETER INSIDE UNIT WAS OBSERVED AT PROPER HOT HOLDING TEMPERATUREOVER 135F. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE DISPLAY.
When was Kitchen + Kocktails last inspected?
Kitchen + Kocktails has 19 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| April 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 27, 2025 | — | |
| February 20, 2025 | — | |
| June 14, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 13, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 2, 2022 | — |
Kitchen + Kocktails vs Near North Side
Near North Side runs 53% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 1,514 clean, 253 mid, 1,113 cooked.
Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.