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Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 9, 2025
- address719 W Maxwell St, Chicago 60607
Is Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches clean?
Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 9, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches last inspected?
Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches has 18 inspections on record going back to September 17, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 12, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 2, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 11, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 15, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 7, 2017 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 2, 2016 | Pass |
Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 51% 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 July 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.