Bq Afroroot Cuisine

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 21, 2026 →
• address4701 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago 60640

Is Bq Afroroot Cuisine clean?

Bq Afroroot Cuisine is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 21, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Bq Afroroot Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required

When was Bq Afroroot Cuisine last inspected?

Bq Afroroot Cuisine has 32 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Bq Afroroot Cuisine vs Uptown

Uptown runs 80% clean across 339 tracked restaurants — 267 clean, 61 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 339 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 July 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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