Uptown Lounge

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 25, 2025
• address1136-1140 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60640

Is Uptown Lounge clean?

Uptown Lounge is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 25, 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 Uptown Lounge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • MUST PROVIDE HANDWASHING SIGNAGE AT HANDWASHING SINKS IN BOTH MEN AND WOMENS RESTROOMS UPSTAIRS IN THE MAIN LOUNGE AREA.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED ICE IN THE ICE BIN IN THE BAR UNCOVERED. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A COVER OR LID FOR ICE TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINAITON.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED ICE IN THE ICE BIN IN THE BAR UNCOVERED. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A COVER OR LID FOR ICE TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINAITON.

When was Uptown Lounge last inspected?

Uptown Lounge has 6 inspections on record going back to October 6, 2011.

Uptown Lounge vs Uptown

Uptown runs 37% clean across 725 tracked restaurants — 267 clean, 61 mid, 392 cooked.

Against the 725 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 63% of them.

Other spots in Uptown

• ✓ Uptown Lounge
  clean · December 15, 2011
• ✓ Urban Vegan
  cooked · November 12, 2014
• ✓ Rokito's
  cooked · July 26, 2011
• ✓ Drink And Ink
  clean · August 28, 2014
• ✓ Clarendon Mini Mart
  cooked · June 23, 2011
• ✓! Kaneshie Supermarket
  cooked · January 23, 2015

See every restaurant inspection in Uptown →

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 November 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.