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The Kitchen Chicago
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 9, 2025
- address316 N Clark St, Chicago 60654
Is The Kitchen Chicago clean?
The Kitchen Chicago is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on July 9, 2025. 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 The Kitchen Chicago?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • 4-101.19--OBSERVED CHIPPED PAINT AND RUST ON THE WIRE STORAGE RACKS IN THE WALK-IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE CHIPPED PAINT AND RUST AND REPAINT OR REPLACE THE SHELVES.
When was The Kitchen Chicago last inspected?
The Kitchen Chicago has 19 inspections on record going back to October 2, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 9, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| July 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 12, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 29, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 1, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 21, 2022 | — | |
| January 27, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 17, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions |
The Kitchen Chicago 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 July 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.