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Berkeley Perk Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 3, 2025
- address69 Berkeley St, Boston 02116
Is Berkeley Perk Cafe clean?
Berkeley Perk Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Berkeley Perk Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf) • Current certified food protection manager certificate is expired. Provide current.(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf) • Current certified food protection manager certificate is expired. Provide current.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of pest activity in basment on floor next to single use article storage & on stairs. Clean and sanitize all affected areas. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon re inspection.Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of pest activity in basment on floor next to single use article storage & on stairs. Clean and sanitize all affected areas. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon re inspection.
When was Berkeley Perk Cafe last inspected?
Berkeley Perk Cafe has 47 inspections on record going back to December 31, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 18, 2025 | — | |
| April 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| June 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 22, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 8, 2022 | Fail |
Berkeley Perk Cafe vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 November 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.