The Bleeding Heart Bakery

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 7, 2011
• address1955 W Belmont Ave, Chicago 60657
• cuisineBakery

Is The Bleeding Heart Bakery clean?

The Bleeding Heart Bakery is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on November 7, 2011. 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 The Bleeding Heart Bakery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 7, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous food shall have adequate refrigerated food storage facilities. FOUND DISPLAY COOLER AT TEMP OF 49F TO 50F.(THEIR OWN THERMOMETER SHOWED 50F).POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD(TOFU/PUMPKIN CHEESE CAKE ,QUICHE AND ETC) WERE STORED INSIDE THE UNIT.NO TIME AND TEMPERATURE LOG PROVIDED.COOLER MUST MAINTAIN TEMP OF 40F AND BELOW.TAGGED UNIT "HELD FOR INSPECTION"DO NOT USE.FAX A LETTER WHEN UNIT MAINTAIN TEMP OF 40F AND BELOW(FAX #312-746-4240).CRITICAL VIOLATION:7-38-005(A) H0000 75229-18
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • All cold food shall be stored at a temperature of 40F or less.FOUND POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURE:1 SMALL QUICHE AT TEMP OF 49.7F; PUMPIKIN /TOFU CHEESES CAKE AT TEMP OF 50.7F; LEMON BUTTER/EGGS AT TEMP OF 47.6F.FOOD DISCARDED AND DENATURED POUNDS 19 EACH PIECES,VALUE 92.18.NO TIME AND TEMPERATURE LOG PROVIDED AT PRESENT TIME.CRITICAL VIOLATION:7-38-005(A) H000075229-18
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • All food and non-food contact equipment and utensils shall be smooth, easily cleanable, and durable, and shall be in good repair. OBSERVED SCREEN DOOR IN POOR REPAIR(SCREEN MESH BROKEN, AND ADDITIONAL THRESHOLD IS NEEDED AT BOTTOM OF THE DOOR.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • All food and non-food contact equipment and utensils shall be smooth, easily cleanable, and durable, and shall be in good repair. OBSERVED SCREEN DOOR IN POOR REPAIR(SCREEN MESH BROKEN, AND ADDITIONAL THRESHOLD IS NEEDED AT BOTTOM OF THE DOOR.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • The floors shall be constructed per code, be smooth and easily cleaned, and be kept clean and in good repair. OBSERVED WATER ON FLOOR IN SOME PART OF THE BASEMENT,INSTRUCTED TO KEEP AREA DRY.ALSO SOME PART OF THE BASEMENT FLOOR ARE UNEVEN AND BROKEN INSTRUCTED THE FLOOR MUST BE WITH SMOOTH SURFACE,CLAENABLE AND NON-OBSORBENT MATERIAL.NEED TO SWEEP FLOOR AT REAR UNUSED KITCHEN (CORNERS AND BEHIND THE COOLERS).
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • The floors shall be constructed per code, be smooth and easily cleaned, and be kept clean and in good repair. OBSERVED WATER ON FLOOR IN SOME PART OF THE BASEMENT,INSTRUCTED TO KEEP AREA DRY.ALSO SOME PART OF THE BASEMENT FLOOR ARE UNEVEN AND BROKEN INSTRUCTED THE FLOOR MUST BE WITH SMOOTH SURFACE,CLAENABLE AND NON-OBSORBENT MATERIAL.NEED TO SWEEP FLOOR AT REAR UNUSED KITCHEN (CORNERS AND BEHIND THE COOLERS).

When was The Bleeding Heart Bakery last inspected?

The Bleeding Heart Bakery has 4 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2010.

The Bleeding Heart Bakery 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 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 November 7, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.