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Cafe 472
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 2, 2025
- address472 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02215
Is Cafe 472 clean?
Cafe 472 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe 472?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Previously provided pest reports stated "Mice activity under ice machine". What appears to be numerous mice droppings observed under ice cream machine (photos taken) upon today's re inspection. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon reinspection. Clean and sanitize all affected areas.Controlling Pests (Pf) • Previously provided pest reports stated "Mice activity under ice machine". What appears to be numerous mice droppings observed under ice cream machine (photos taken) upon today's re inspection. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon reinspection. Clean and sanitize all affected areas.
When was Cafe 472 last inspected?
Cafe 472 has 61 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2025 | — | |
| August 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 31, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 31, 2025 | — | |
| January 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 8, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 28, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — |
Cafe 472 vs Fenway
Fenway runs 89% clean across 433 tracked restaurants — 379 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 433 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
Other spots in Fenway
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 September 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.