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Muscle Bar (La Fitness)
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 13, 2024
- address1804 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60640
Is Muscle Bar (La Fitness) clean?
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 13, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Muscle Bar (La Fitness)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 13, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcriticalManagement, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • 2-102.14 FOUND NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY/TRAINING ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A SIGNED EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY FOR EACH EMPLOYEE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010
When was Muscle Bar (La Fitness) last inspected?
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) has 3 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2024.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 4, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| February 13, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 7, 2024 | Fail |
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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 February 13, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.