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Boar's Head Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 13, 2025
- address210 W Lake St, Chicago 60606
Is Boar's Head Cafe clean?
Boar's Head Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 13, 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 Boar's Head Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • FOUND NO HANDWASHING SIGN AT REAR KITCHEN AREAS.MUST PROVIDE.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • FOUND NO FOOD GUARD BETWEEN HAND SINK AND PREPARATION AREA(FRONT SANDWICH LINE AREA).MUST PROVIDE.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • FOUND NO FOOD GUARD BETWEEN HAND SINK AND PREPARATION AREA(FRONT SANDWICH LINE AREA).MUST PROVIDE.
When was Boar's Head Cafe last inspected?
Boar's Head Cafe has 14 inspections on record going back to September 1, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 28, 2023 | — | |
| October 21, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 14, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 12, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| April 23, 2020 | Fail | |
| October 17, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 6, 2018 | Pass | |
| August 31, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 24, 2017 | Pass |
Boar's Head Cafe vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 56% 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 November 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.