Sunny Village Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 31, 2025
• address5916-5918 N W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60630

Is Sunny Village Cafe clean?

Sunny Village Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 31, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Sunny Village Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • OBSERVED NO CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE WHILE TIME/ TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED FOOD INCLUDING SLICED TURKEY AND CREAMED CHEESE AREA SEVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED UNDER RETAIL FOOD LICENSE.
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICIES ON SITE FOR ALL FOOD HANDLER EMPLOYEES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010. CITATIONS ISSUED UNDER RETIAL FOOD LICENSE.

When was Sunny Village Cafe last inspected?

Sunny Village Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to August 29, 2024.

Sunny Village Cafe vs Portage Park

Portage Park runs 65% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 142 mid, 107 cooked.

Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.

Other spots in Portage Park

• ✓! Sunny Village Cafe
  mid · March 31, 2025
• ✓ La Dolce Vita Cucina
  clean · August 26, 2025
• ✓ Central Nutrition
  clean · September 24, 2024
• ✓ 7-11
  clean · December 11, 2024
• ✓ 7-11
  clean · December 11, 2024
• ✓ La Dolce Vita Cucina
  clean · October 8, 2024

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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 March 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.