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Vista Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 25, 2025
- address233 N Michigan Ave, Chicago 60601
Is Vista Cafe clean?
Vista Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Vista Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • MUST HANG MOPS TO ALL TO DRY PROPERLY WHEN NOT IN USE.
When was Vista Cafe last inspected?
Vista Cafe has 18 inspections on record going back to April 4, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 13, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 26, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 11, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 1, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 5, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 2, 2017 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2016 | Pass |
Vista Cafe vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 February 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.