Community Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 24, 2025
• address5801 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago 60646

Is Community Cafe clean?

Community Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 24, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Community Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 24, 2025, 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 • OBSERVED "WASH" GAUGE ON HIGH TEMPERATURE DISH MACHINE IS HARD TO READ. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD CONDITION.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED LEAK AT FAUCET OF 3 COMPARTMENT SINK AND 3 COMPARTMENT SINK DRAINING SLOWLY. INSTRUCTED TO CORRECT AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD CONDITION.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED 1 OF 2 FOOD EMPLOYEES WITH AN EXPIRED FOOD HANLDER CARD. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED 1 OF 2 FOOD EMPLOYEES WITH AN EXPIRED FOOD HANLDER CARD. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.

When was Community Cafe last inspected?

Community Cafe has 14 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Community Cafe vs North Park

North Park runs 61% clean across 224 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 37 mid, 51 cooked.

Against the 224 spots Cooked tracks in North Park, this one comes out cleaner than 40% of them.

Other spots in North Park

• ✓ Alarmist Brewing
  clean · March 31, 2017
• ✓ Foster Grocery Plus
  clean · January 4, 2017
• ✓ Community Grocery
  clean · December 22, 2022
• ✓ Habibi's Mediterranean & Mexican Grill
  clean · April 30, 2018
• ✓! Shukr
  mid · November 24, 2017
• ✓ Crazy Cravings
  clean · August 11, 2017

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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 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.