• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 30, 2012 →
• address47 Massachusetts Av, Boston 02115

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Is Cafe 47 clean?

Cafe 47 is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 30, 2012. 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 47?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 30, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical

Cafe 47 inspection and administrative history

Cafe 47 has 15 inspections on record going back to April 10, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe 47 vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 30, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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