• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 4, 2021 →
• address1033 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02215

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Is Brown Sugar Cafe clean?

Brown Sugar Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 4, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Brown Sugar Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Brown Sugar Cafe inspection and administrative history

Brown Sugar Cafe has 42 inspections on record going back to March 1, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Brown Sugar Cafe vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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.

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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 March 4, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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