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Bru Coffee House
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 26, 2025
- address1562 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60622
Is Bru Coffee House clean?
Bru Coffee House is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 26, 2025. 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 Bru Coffee House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site while handling and serving TCS foods ( chicken, beef...) instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
- 🧼hand hygiene slippingcriticalProper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use • Open employee drink on prep table, instructed to cap drinks or keep off prep table.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • Food handler not wearing hair restraints, instructed to wear.Personal Cleanliness • Food handler not wearing hair restraints, instructed to wear.
When was Bru Coffee House last inspected?
Bru Coffee House has 15 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 26, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 21, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | Fail | |
| May 6, 2020 | Pass | |
| December 13, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 7, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 27, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 24, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 17, 2016 | Pass | |
| November 9, 2016 | Fail | |
| December 10, 2015 | Pass |
Bru Coffee House vs West Town
West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.
Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 42% 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 August 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.