The Bookcellar

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 22, 2021 →
• address4736-4738 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60625

Is The Bookcellar clean?

The Bookcellar is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 22, 2021. 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 The Bookcellar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 22, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting
• ⚠️Previous Core Violation Corrected
• ⚠️Summary Report Displayed And Visible To The Public

When was The Bookcellar last inspected?

The Bookcellar has 7 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2012.

The Bookcellar vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 79% clean across 379 tracked restaurants — 296 clean, 72 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 379 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 22, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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