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Protein Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 25, 2024
- address151 N Michigan Ave, Chicago 60601
Is Protein Bar clean?
Protein Bar is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 25, 2024. 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 Protein Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 25, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • NO HANDWASHING SIGNAGE FOR THE HANDSINK IN THE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE.
When was Protein Bar last inspected?
Protein Bar has 16 inspections on record going back to December 23, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 26, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| January 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 2, 2018 | Pass | |
| June 22, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 21, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2017 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2016 | Pass |
Protein Bar 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 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 January 25, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.