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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 24, 2019
- address251 E Huron St, Chicago 60611
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 24, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 24, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Au Bon Pain last inspected?
Au Bon Pain has 17 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 25, 2020 | closed by the city | |
| June 24, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 17, 2019 | Fail | |
| April 30, 2019 | Pass | |
| April 17, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 25, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 8, 2018 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 8, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2016 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 19, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Au Bon Pain vs Near North Side
Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.
Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 June 24, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.