Nia is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Nia has 22 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 12, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2026 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 25, 2026 | β | |
| March 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2025 | β | |
| February 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2024 | β | |
| February 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2022 | β | |
| December 26, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 26, 2019 | β |
Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants β 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 51% of them.
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 β 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 βpriorityβ 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 β this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.