• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 20, 2019 →
• address1010 Massachusetts Av, Roxbury 02118

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Is Cafe 1010 clean?

Cafe 1010 is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 20, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Cafe 1010?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Non-Continuous Cooking of Raw Animal Foods (Pf)
• ⚠️Cooling (P)critical
• ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)

Cafe 1010 inspection and administrative history

Cafe 1010 has 63 inspections on record going back to December 3, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe 1010 vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 November 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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