The Perfect Cup

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 10, 2025 →
• address4700 N Damen Ave, Chicago 60625

Is The Perfect Cup clean?

The Perfect Cup is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 10, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Perfect Cup?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Proper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used

When was The Perfect Cup last inspected?

The Perfect Cup has 11 inspections on record going back to August 20, 2010.

The Perfect Cup vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 79% clean across 379 tracked restaurants — 296 clean, 72 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 379 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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