Mindful Baking Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2024
• address1942 W Montrose Ave, Chicago 60613

Is Mindful Baking Cafe clean?

Mindful Baking Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 22, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Mindful Baking Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • OBSERVED NO THERMOMETER PRESENT IN THE SMALL GREY REACH IN COOLER IN THE FRONT PREPARATION AREA TO MEASURE THE AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE IN THE WARMEST PART OF THE COOLER.
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED UTENSILS (SCOOPS, SPATULAS, AND SPOONS) STORED WITH FOOD CONTACT SURFACES EXPOSED. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT ALL UTENSILS TO PROTECT FOOD CONTACT SURFACES FROM POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION.
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED UTENSILS (SCOOPS, SPATULAS, AND SPOONS) STORED WITH FOOD CONTACT SURFACES EXPOSED. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT ALL UTENSILS TO PROTECT FOOD CONTACT SURFACES FROM POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED THE SLIDING DOOR OF THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM TO NOT BE SELF CLOSING. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE A SELF CLOSING DOOR FOR THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED THE SLIDING DOOR OF THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM TO NOT BE SELF CLOSING. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE A SELF CLOSING DOOR FOR THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • OBSERVED CERTIFIED MANAGER PRESENT WITH NO PROOF OF ALLERGEN TRAINING PROVIDED AT TIME OF INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED MANAGER THAT EACH CERTIFIED FOOD PROTECTION MANAGER MUST MAINTAIN PROOF OF ALLERGEN TRAINING.

When was Mindful Baking Cafe last inspected?

Mindful Baking Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2022.

Mindful Baking 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 October 22, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.