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Cafecito
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 5, 2026
- address7 N Wells St, Chicago 60606
Is Cafecito clean?
Cafecito is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafecito?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED WASTE RECEPTACLE ALL-GENDER EMPLOYEE WASHROOM IN THE REAR AREA MISSING COVER. INSTRUCTED TO COVER WASTE RECEPTACLES IN WOMEN'S OR ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF SANITARY PRODUCTS AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED WASTE RECEPTACLE ALL-GENDER EMPLOYEE WASHROOM IN THE REAR AREA MISSING COVER. INSTRUCTED TO COVER WASTE RECEPTACLES IN WOMEN'S OR ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF SANITARY PRODUCTS AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED VENTILATION COVER ABOVE THE UTILITY SINK IN THE REAR AREA HEAVILY-SOILED WITH DUST DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN VENTILATION COVER AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF DUST DEBRIS AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.
When was Cafecito last inspected?
Cafecito has 24 inspections on record going back to March 11, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2023 | Fail | |
| October 3, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 29, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 29, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 9, 2020 | Pass | |
| April 3, 2020 | Fail | |
| November 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Cafecito vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 March 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.