Backlot Coffee

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2024 →
• address3982 N Avondale Ave, Chicago 60641

Is Backlot Coffee clean?

Backlot Coffee is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 15, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Backlot Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Backlot Coffee last inspected?

Backlot Coffee has 9 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2017.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Backlot Coffee vs Irving Park

Irving Park runs 80% clean across 368 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 71 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 368 spots Cooked tracks in Irving Park, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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.

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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 October 15, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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