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Kanela
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 4, 2022
- address1552 N Wells St, Chicago 60610
Is Kanela clean?
Kanela is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 4, 2022. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Kanela?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 4, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED OLD SOUR CREAM CONTAINERS BEING USED TO STORE EGG WHITES AND OTHER PREPARED ITEMS. INSTRUCTED TO USE ONLY FOOD GRADE, REUSABLE CONTAINERS.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED OLD SOUR CREAM CONTAINERS BEING USED TO STORE EGG WHITES AND OTHER PREPARED ITEMS. INSTRUCTED TO USE ONLY FOOD GRADE, REUSABLE CONTAINERS.
When was Kanela last inspected?
Kanela has 17 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 27, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| April 4, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 21, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 30, 2019 | Fail | |
| February 6, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 25, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 17, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 16, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 31, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Kanela 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 0% 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 April 4, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.