• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 24, 2016 →
• address97 Salem St, Boston 02113

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Is Boston Common Coffee Co. clean?

Boston Common Coffee Co. is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 24, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Boston Common Coffee Co.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 24, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Boston Common Coffee Co. inspection and administrative history

Boston Common Coffee Co. has 30 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Boston Common Coffee Co. vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in North End

• ✕ Mcfadden's Saloon
  cooked · May 29, 2012
• ✓ Rosi's Market
  clean · May 1, 2015
• ✓ Contrada's Coffee Shop
  clean · April 1, 2010
• ✕ Strega
  cooked · July 29, 2026
• ✓ Nebo
  clean · April 12, 2012
• ✓ Casa Blanca Meat & Fish Mkt
  clean · September 5, 2008

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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.

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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: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 24, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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