Soloway Coffee

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 7, 2025
• address2275 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60614

Is Soloway Coffee clean?

Soloway Coffee is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Soloway Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BOXES OF FOOD ITEMS AND BOXES OF OIL STORED ON THE FLOOR IN THE UPSTAIRS DRY STORAGE AREA AND THROUGHOUT BASEMENT DRY STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL ITEMS AT LEAST 6 INCHES OFF THE FLOOR.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED BOXES OF FOOD ITEMS AND BOXES OF OIL STORED ON THE FLOOR IN THE UPSTAIRS DRY STORAGE AREA AND THROUGHOUT BASEMENT DRY STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ELEVATE ALL ITEMS AT LEAST 6 INCHES OFF THE FLOOR.
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEES AT TIME OF INSPECTION WEARING ANY EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS OR BEARD COVER FOR ONE EMPLOYEE WITH A LARGE BEARD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER THAT ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES WORKING THROUGHOUT THE KITCHEN MUST WEAR EFFECTIVE HAIR AND BEARD RESTRAINTS.
  Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEES AT TIME OF INSPECTION WEARING ANY EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS OR BEARD COVER FOR ONE EMPLOYEE WITH A LARGE BEARD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER THAT ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES WORKING THROUGHOUT THE KITCHEN MUST WEAR EFFECTIVE HAIR AND BEARD RESTRAINTS.
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT AND UTENSILS STORED BENEATH UNPROTECTED/NOT SHIELDED WASTEWATER AND SEWER LINES IN THE BASEMENT DRY STORAGE AREA ALONG TWO WALLS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE SHIELDING OR MOVE ALL FOOD ITEMS AND STORAGE BINS FROM BELOW ANY UNPROTECTED SEWER AND WASTEWATER LINES. • MIXING BOWLS IN THE PREP AREA STORAGE RACKS MUST BE STORED INVERTED.
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT AND UTENSILS STORED BENEATH UNPROTECTED/NOT SHIELDED WASTEWATER AND SEWER LINES IN THE BASEMENT DRY STORAGE AREA ALONG TWO WALLS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE SHIELDING OR MOVE ALL FOOD ITEMS AND STORAGE BINS FROM BELOW ANY UNPROTECTED SEWER AND WASTEWATER LINES. • MIXING BOWLS IN THE PREP AREA STORAGE RACKS MUST BE STORED INVERTED.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • MUST NOT USE MILK CRATES AS A MEANS OF ELEVATION FOR STORED ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE BASEMENT.

When was Soloway Coffee last inspected?

Soloway Coffee has 5 inspections on record going back to October 26, 2023.

Soloway Coffee vs Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park runs 41% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 673 clean, 174 mid, 789 cooked.

Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 60% 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 March 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.