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Le Pain Quotidien
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 9, 2019
- address135 N Clinton, Chicago 60661
Is Le Pain Quotidien clean?
Le Pain Quotidien is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on October 9, 2019. 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 Le Pain Quotidien?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 9, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🏷️food improperly labeledFood Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED BULK CONTAINERS OF NUTS AND GRAINS NOT PROPERLY LABELED. INSTRUCTED THAT WHEN OUT OF THE ORIGINAL CONTAINER, FOOD MUST BE LABELED PROPERLY.
When was Le Pain Quotidien last inspected?
Le Pain Quotidien has 17 inspections on record going back to April 22, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2021 | closed by the city | |
| October 9, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 7, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 30, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 6, 2018 | Fail | |
| June 27, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 19, 2017 | Fail | |
| October 27, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 11, 2016 | Pass | |
| April 16, 2015 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2015 | Fail |
Le Pain Quotidien vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, 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 October 9, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.