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Yellow Rose Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 28, 2025
- address5640 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60646
Is Yellow Rose Cafe clean?
Yellow Rose Cafe is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Yellow Rose Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED 1 EMPLOYEE WITHOUT FOOD HANDLER TRAINING. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED 1 EMPLOYEE WITHOUT FOOD HANDLER TRAINING. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.
When was Yellow Rose Cafe last inspected?
Yellow Rose Cafe has 22 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 31, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 5, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 27, 2021 | Fail | |
| January 22, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 22, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 26, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2017 | Pass |
Yellow Rose Cafe vs Jefferson Park
Jefferson Park runs 69% clean across 272 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 47 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 272 spots Cooked tracks in Jefferson Park, 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 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.