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Pine Street Kitchen
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 22, 2025
- address401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago 60611
Is Pine Street Kitchen clean?
Pine Street Kitchen is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Pine Street Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offProper Hot Holding Temperatures • OBSERVED CHICKEN HELD AT AN INADEQUATE TEMPERATURE OF 124 F. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENSURE ALL HOT HOLDING FOODS ARE HELD AT A TEMPERATURE OF 135 F AND ABOVE. PRIORITY VIOLATION 7-38-005 CITATION CONSOLIDATED WITH VIOLATION #22
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughProper Cold Holding Temperatures • OBSERVED COLD BEEF AND GREEK YOGURT HELD AT INADEQUATE TEMPERATURES OF 53 AND 45 F. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENSURE ALL COLD FOODS ARE HELD AT 41 F AND BELOW. MANAGER DISCARDED 7 POUNDS OF BEEF AND 25 POUNDS OF GREEK YOGURT ($65) PRIORITY VIOLATION 7-38-005 CITATION ISSUED.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED ICE MACHINE WITH CALCIUM BUILD UP ON INTERIOR. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN.
When was Pine Street Kitchen last inspected?
Pine Street Kitchen has 12 inspections on record going back to June 13, 2016.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 22, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 3, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 20, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 26, 2018 | Pass | |
| June 23, 2017 | Pass | |
| September 23, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 16, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2016 | — |
Pine Street Kitchen vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 53% 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 July 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.