Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 2, 2026
• address455 N Park Dr, Chicago 60611

Is Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe clean?

Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 2, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED SOME PREP AREA REACH IN COOLERS CONDENSERS WITH DUST BUILD UP. INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST CLEAN ALL COOLERS CONDENSERS AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED SLIGHT BUILD UP INSIDE SOME ICE MACHINES UPPER PORTIONS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER MUST CLEAN INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINES AND MAINTAIN.

When was Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe last inspected?

Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe has 17 inspections on record going back to February 10, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe vs Near North Side

Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.

Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 28% of them.

Other spots in Near North Side

• ✓ Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe
  clean · February 10, 2015
• ✓ Steeterville Social
  clean · February 10, 2015
• ✓ Main Kitchen/Forfive/Eta/ Empl Cafe
  clean · February 10, 2015
• ✓ Steeterville Social
  clean · February 10, 2015
• ✓ Steeterville Social
  clean · April 2, 2026
• ✓ Lamont's
  clean · March 25, 2014

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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 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.