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Lucy's Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 23, 2025
- address2100 W Roscoe St, Chicago 60618
Is Lucy's Cafe clean?
Lucy's Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 23, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lucy's Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED RUSTY STORAGE RACKS IN WALK-IN COOLER IN THE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO REMOVE RUST AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED MULTIPLE CUTTING BOARDS WITH DEEP SCRATCHES AND STAINS ON PREP SURFACES THROUGHOUT REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO RESURFACE/REPLACE CUTTING BOARDS AND MAINTAIN.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED ACCUMULATED DIRT ON FLOORS ALONG WALLS THROUGHOUT PREP AREAS. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO CLEAN FLOORS AND ALONG WALLS AND MAINTAIN.
When was Lucy's Cafe last inspected?
Lucy's Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 14, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 27, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 2, 2023 | — | |
| July 15, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 8, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 17, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 10, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 18, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 10, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 13, 2017 | Pass |
Lucy's Cafe vs North Center
North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.
Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.