Small Cakes

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 8, 2025
• address218 W Washington St, Chicago 60606

Is Small Cakes clean?

Small Cakes is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 8, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Small Cakes?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • Using paper cups as a scoop for bulk food container. Instructed to use proper scoops.

When was Small Cakes last inspected?

Small Cakes has 5 inspections on record going back to August 17, 2021.

Small Cakes vs Loop

Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 January 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.