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Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 9, 2025
- address5317 N Clark St, Chicago 60640
Is Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe clean?
Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED DUST ACCUMULATION ON THE SHELVING UNITS BEHIND REGISTER WHERE CONDIMENTS ARE STORED. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN SHELVING UNITS AND MAINTAIN.
When was Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe last inspected?
Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe has 25 inspections on record going back to November 24, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 14, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 15, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 10, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 28, 2019 | Pass | |
| August 27, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 24, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Kopi, A Traveler's Cafe vs Edgewater
Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.
Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 63% 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 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.