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Frances' Rest & Brunchery
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 22, 2025
- address2552-2554 N Clark St, Chicago 60614
Is Frances' Rest & Brunchery clean?
Frances' Rest & Brunchery is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Frances' Rest & Brunchery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • 4-602.11(B-E)--OBSERVED PINK MINERAL BUILD UP INSIDE OF ICE MACHINE IN REAR. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-201.11--OBSERVED EXTREMELY DIRTY FLOORS WITH FOOD SPILLAGE AND GREASE ON FLOORS THROUGHOUT MAIN PREP LINE. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
- ⚠️Previous Core Violation Corrected • PREVIOUS CORE VIOLATION NOT CORRECTED FROM 8/21/2024, REPORT #2600486. #58- NOTED MISSING ALLERGEN TRAINING FOR ALL CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS. INSTRUCTED ANY PERSONS WITH THE CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE TO COMPLY WITH COMPLETION OF TRAINING. MUST PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION ON SITE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-42-090. CITATION ISSUED.Previous Core Violation Corrected • PREVIOUS CORE VIOLATION NOT CORRECTED FROM 8/21/2024, REPORT #2600486. #58- NOTED MISSING ALLERGEN TRAINING FOR ALL CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS. INSTRUCTED ANY PERSONS WITH THE CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE TO COMPLY WITH COMPLETION OF TRAINING. MUST PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION ON SITE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-42-090. CITATION ISSUED.
When was Frances' Rest & Brunchery last inspected?
Frances' Rest & Brunchery has 29 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 22, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 21, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 7, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 23, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 21, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 14, 2021 | Fail | |
| April 10, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 31, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 12, 2018 | Pass |
Frances' Rest & Brunchery vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 53% 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 September 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.