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Cafe 41
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 24, 2025
- address300 E Randolph St, Chicago 60601
Is Cafe 41 clean?
Cafe 41 is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 24, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe 41?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required • 2-102.13: AT TIME OF INSPECTION NO ALLERGEN AWARENESS TRAINING CERTIFICATE PROVIDED FOR CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SERVICE SANITATION MANAGER. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF ALLERGEN AWARENESS TRAINING FOR ALL EMPLOYEES WITH CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SERVICE SANITATION CERTIFICATES
When was Cafe 41 last inspected?
Cafe 41 has 15 inspections on record going back to January 13, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 23, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 17, 2019 | Pass | |
| February 23, 2018 | Pass | |
| June 12, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 2, 2017 | Fail | |
| August 8, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 24, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 27, 2014 | Pass |
Cafe 41 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 59% 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 December 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.