Cooked?
Lyfe Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 8, 2025
- address259 E Erie St, Chicago 60611
Is Lyfe Kitchen clean?
Lyfe Kitchen is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 8, 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 Lyfe Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 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 TORN DOOR GASKET AND BROKEN PLASTIC CURTAIN WALK-IN COOLER AND EWALK-IN FREEZER. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN
When was Lyfe Kitchen last inspected?
Lyfe Kitchen has 17 inspections on record going back to March 17, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 3, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| January 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 8, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 4, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 17, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 26, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2020 | Fail |
Lyfe Kitchen 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.
Other spots in Near North Side
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 January 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.