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Brown Sugar Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 16, 2026
- address1033 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02134
Is Brown Sugar Cafe clean?
Brown Sugar Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 16, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Brown Sugar Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Some bxes with food items stored on the floor inside the walk-in unit. Elevate properly. Observed a large wok stored on the floor at storage area. Elevate properly.Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Some bxes with food items stored on the floor inside the walk-in unit. Elevate properly. Observed a large wok stored on the floor at storage area. Elevate properly.
- ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Several prepared food items without date-marking. Provide.Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Several prepared food items without date-marking. Provide.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Some of the knifes stored soiled in knife boxes. Clean and sanitize before storing away.(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Some of the knifes stored soiled in knife boxes. Clean and sanitize before storing away.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Bottom of walk-in frezzers soiled. Clean properly.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Bottom of walk-in frezzers soiled. Clean properly.
When was Brown Sugar Cafe last inspected?
Brown Sugar Cafe has 28 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 16, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 25, 2023 | — | |
| July 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2023 | Pass |
Brown Sugar Cafe vs Allston
Allston runs 88% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 415 clean, 35 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, 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 July 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.