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Oromo Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 28, 2026
- address4703 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625
Is Oromo Cafe clean?
Oromo Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Oromo Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED FOOD EMPLOYEES PREPARING FOOD WITHOUT HAIR RESTRAINTS. INTRUCTED MANAGEMENT THAT ALL FOOD EMPLOYEES MUST WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS WHEN PREPARING FOOD.Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED FOOD EMPLOYEES PREPARING FOOD WITHOUT HAIR RESTRAINTS. INTRUCTED MANAGEMENT THAT ALL FOOD EMPLOYEES MUST WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS WHEN PREPARING FOOD.
When was Oromo Cafe last inspected?
Oromo Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| June 16, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 26, 2023 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 1, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 12, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 28, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 23, 2017 | Pass |
Oromo Cafe vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 32% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 293 clean, 67 mid, 556 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 70% 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 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.