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Boston News Cafe Express
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address85 Franklin St, Boston 02110
Is Boston News Cafe Express clean?
Boston News Cafe Express is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Boston News Cafe Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Protein bars obsevred expired 3.23.26. Protein drink expired 4.16.26. PIC discarded. Ensure proper rotation.Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Protein bars obsevred expired 3.23.26. Protein drink expired 4.16.26. PIC discarded. Ensure proper rotation.
When was Boston News Cafe Express last inspected?
Boston News Cafe Express has 25 inspections on record going back to January 6, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| July 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| July 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 30, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| April 29, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
Boston News Cafe Express 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 11% 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 May 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.