Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 20, 2026
• address5553 N Clark St, Chicago 60640

Is Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar clean?

Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 20, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • NOTED MULTIPLE TAGS INSIDE A CONTAINER OF OYSTERS INSIDE THE WALK IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE ONE ORIGINAL TAG PER CONTAINER. MANAGER IMMEDIATELY AND VOLUTARILY DISPOSED OF 21/2 LBS OF PRODUCT WORTH $3.00 THROUGH DENATURING PROCESS. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION #7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.critical
  Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • NOTED MULTIPLE TAGS INSIDE A CONTAINER OF OYSTERS INSIDE THE WALK IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE ONE ORIGINAL TAG PER CONTAINER. MANAGER IMMEDIATELY AND VOLUTARILY DISPOSED OF 21/2 LBS OF PRODUCT WORTH $3.00 THROUGH DENATURING PROCESS. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION #7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧊cold food not cold enough
  Proper Cold Holding Temperatures • NOTED INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF THE FOLLOWING TCS FOOD ITEMS INSIDE SERVICE COOLERS TO BE IMPROPER:-BEANS 45.6F, CHEESE 46.8F, BEET HUMMUS 47.9F,EGGS 48.3F MANAGER IMMEDIATELY AND VOLUNTARILY DISPOSED OF 20 LBS OF PRODUCTS WORTH $150.00 THROUGH DENATURING PROCESS. PRIORITY VIOLATION #7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Proper Cooling Methods Used; Adequate Equipment For Temperature Control • EQUIPMENT NOT MAINTAINING PROPER TEMPERATURE. NOTED TEMPERATURE OF SERVICE COOLER AT THE PREP AREA TO BE IMPROPER AT 47.6F. INSTRUCTED NOT TO USE EQUIPMENT UNTIL MAINTAINING PROPER TEMPERATURE OF 41F AND BELOW. PRIORITY VIOLATION 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • NOTED SERVING PLATES, SILVER WARE, BOWLS ETC ON SHELVES THROUGHOUT PREMISES NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT ALL SERVING PLATES TO PREVENT DUST ACCUMULATION.
  In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • NOTED SERVING PLATES, SILVER WARE, BOWLS ETC ON SHELVES THROUGHOUT PREMISES NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO INVERT ALL SERVING PLATES TO PREVENT DUST ACCUMULATION.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • NOTED UNFINISHED WOOD USED FOR SHELVING AT THE BASEMENT FOOD PREP/DRY STORAGE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE SHELVES WITH NON POROUS WOOD THAT ARE EASILY CLEANABLE AND MAINTAINED.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • NOTED SPRAYER AT THE DISH WASHING AREA HANGING BELOW THE RIM OF THE SINK. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE THE DEVICE TO HOLD THE SPRAYER ABOVE THE WATER RIM OF THE SINK • NOTED NO ONE COMPARTMENT SINK AT THE BAR AREA WITH A CAPPUCCINO MACHINE WHERE COFFEE PREPPING IS DONE. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL A ONE COMPARTMENT SINK OR REMOVE THE CAPPUCCINO MACHINE ACCESSIBLE TO A HAND WASHING SINK.

When was Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar last inspected?

Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar has 14 inspections on record going back to May 23, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.

Other spots in Edgewater

• ✓! Uvae Kitchen And Wine Bar
  mid · May 31, 2019
• ✓ Go! Grocer/Le Cafe
  clean · September 3, 2020
• ✓ Go! Grocer/Le Cafe
  clean · April 26, 2019
• ✓ La Pharmacie
  clean · August 4, 2025
• ✓! Taco Bell
  mid · May 24, 2019
• ✓ Oda Mediterranean Cuisine
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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 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.