Cooked?
Marchesa
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 4, 2022
- address535 N Wells St, Chicago 60654
Is Marchesa clean?
Marchesa is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on August 4, 2022. 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 Marchesa?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 4, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • OBSERVED NO CITY OF CHICAGO MANAGER CERTIFICATE POSTED ON SITE AT TIME OF INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN AN EMPLOYEE HOLDING CITY OF CHICAGO FOODSERVICE MANAGER CERTIFICATE ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • UNABLE TO LOCATED BACKFLOW PREVENTER AT ESPRESSO MACHINE. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL RELEVANT LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS.
When was Marchesa last inspected?
Marchesa has 14 inspections on record going back to August 2, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 13, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| July 30, 2024 | — | |
| October 25, 2023 | — | |
| August 4, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 27, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| September 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 1, 2020 | Fail | |
| August 10, 2020 | — | |
| November 25, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 27, 2017 | Pass |
Marchesa 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 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 August 4, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.