Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 20, 2026 →
• address4229 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60641
• cuisineBakery

Is Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries clean?

Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 20, 2026. 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 Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Proper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🧊food not cooled down right
  Proper Date Marking And Disposition
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required

When was Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries last inspected?

Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries has 22 inspections on record going back to April 8, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Cuenca's Bakery & Groceries vs Albany Park

Albany Park runs 76% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 248 clean, 70 mid, 9 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in Albany Park, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

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• ✓! Dokil Bakery
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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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