• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 31, 2017 →
• address660 Beacon St, Boston 02215

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Is Cafe At Barnes And Noble clean?

Cafe At Barnes And Noble is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 31, 2017. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Cafe At Barnes And Noble?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 31, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Separation/Sanitizer Criteriacritical
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Cafe At Barnes And Noble inspection and administrative history

Cafe At Barnes And Noble has 32 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe At Barnes And Noble vs Fenway

Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 374 clean, 21 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 January 31, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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