• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 14, 2026 →
• address26 Temple Pl, Boston 02111

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Is Cafe 26 clean?

Cafe 26 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe 26?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Cafe 26 inspection and administrative history

Cafe 26 has 46 inspections on record going back to July 31, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Cafe 26 vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.

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• ✓ Sip Wine Bar & Kitchen
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• ✓ Pret A Manger (185 Franklin St.)
  clean · August 20, 2019
• ✓ Palm Restaurant (1 International Place)
  clean · August 10, 2026
• ✓ Society On High
  clean · April 23, 2026

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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 July 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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