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Bean & Leaf Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 4, 2025
- address20 Custom House St, Boston 02110
Is Bean & Leaf Cafe clean?
Bean & Leaf Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 4, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bean & Leaf Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 4, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Bean & Leaf Cafe last inspected?
Bean & Leaf Cafe has 64 inspections on record going back to February 27, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 5, 2026 | — | |
| August 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 24, 2022 | — | |
| May 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 9, 2022 | Fail |
Bean & Leaf Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.