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The Dime
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 22, 2025
- address2263 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60614
Is The Dime clean?
The Dime is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Dime?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • 4-602.11(B-E)--OBSERVED PINK MINERAL BUILD UP INSIDE OF ICE MACHINE. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • 6-202.14--OBSERVED MENS AND WOMENS TOILET ROOM DOORS NOT SELF CLOSING. MUST INSTALL SELF CLOSING DEVICE ON TOILET ROOM DOORS.Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • 6-202.14--OBSERVED MENS AND WOMENS TOILET ROOM DOORS NOT SELF CLOSING. MUST INSTALL SELF CLOSING DEVICE ON TOILET ROOM DOORS.
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required • 2-102.13--NO ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATE PROVIDED. MUST PROVIDE ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATES FOR ALL CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS.
When was The Dime last inspected?
The Dime has 16 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 30, 2025 | — | |
| September 25, 2024 | — | |
| February 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 21, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 18, 2020 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 16, 2019 | Fail | |
| July 31, 2017 | — | |
| July 18, 2017 | — |
The Dime 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 October 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.