Prequel Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 12, 2025
• address2034 W Division St, Chicago 60622

Is Prequel Cafe clean?

Prequel Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 12, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Prequel Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • Unable to locate backflow preventer to ice maker and front Espresso machine, Instructed to install in and easy to view location.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • No allergen training certificate for food service manager. Instructed to obtain.

When was Prequel Cafe last inspected?

Prequel Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to November 26, 2025.

Prequel Cafe vs West Town

West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.

Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 55% 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 December 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.