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Cafe 939
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026
- address939 Boylston St, Boston 02115
Is Cafe 939 clean?
Cafe 939 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe 939?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Cafe 939 last inspected?
Cafe 939 has 52 inspections on record going back to November 21, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| September 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 12, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
Cafe 939 vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.