Cafe Restaurant Art

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 13, 2025
• address4658 N Rockwell St, Chicago 60625

Is Cafe Restaurant Art clean?

Cafe Restaurant Art is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 13, 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 Cafe Restaurant Art?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties • PERSON IN CHARGE DOES NOT HAVE A CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION.
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO VALID CITY OF CHICAGO SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED ON THE PREMISES. MUST HAVE A VALID SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED ON THE PREMISES AND THAT PERSON BE ON SITE WHILE FOODS ARE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • TORN RUBBER DOOR GASKET ON THE REAR TWO DOOR COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE. • ALL UNUSED COOLERS THROUGHOUT MUST BE REMOVED TO PREVENT PEST HARBORING.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • MUST NOT USE CARDBOARD AS LINER UNDER THE REAR COOLER.

When was Cafe Restaurant Art last inspected?

Cafe Restaurant Art has 22 inspections on record going back to December 11, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe Restaurant Art vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.

Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 26% of them.

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  cooked · June 30, 2020
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  clean · June 11, 2024
• ✓ Sabor A Cuba
  clean · January 18, 2012
• ? Anatolia Kebap
  cooked · September 12, 2012
• ? Cafe A' Riana
  cooked · October 23, 2013
• ? 5159 Grill
  cooked · June 14, 2011

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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.