Cafe Beirut

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 28, 2023
• address650 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Cafe Beirut clean?

Cafe Beirut is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 28, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe Beirut?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 28, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Discontinue reuse of plastic buckets and lids that are cracked soiled and not cleanable durable.
  Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Discontinue reuse of plastic buckets and lids that are cracked soiled and not cleanable durable.
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Walls throughout kitchen and basement behind cookline prep warewash have grease or dried food soils. Floor under cookline with heavy grease under prep areas food debris and soils. Exteriors of both three compartment sinks exteriors of bulk food containers exteriors of metal pans shelving below microwave fryer cabinet with food soils. Clean all areas to remove. Shelving in basement and in walkin with rust or food debris.Clean all to remove.
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Walls throughout kitchen and basement behind cookline prep warewash have grease or dried food soils. Floor under cookline with heavy grease under prep areas food debris and soils. Exteriors of both three compartment sinks exteriors of bulk food containers exteriors of metal pans shelving below microwave fryer cabinet with food soils. Clean all areas to remove. Shelving in basement and in walkin with rust or food debris.Clean all to remove.
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Rear area with necessary items equipment. Remove and maintain area clean.
  Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Rear area with necessary items equipment. Remove and maintain area clean.

When was Cafe Beirut last inspected?

Cafe Beirut has 64 inspections on record going back to March 15, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe Beirut vs Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain runs 77% clean across 189 tracked restaurants — 139 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.

Other spots in Jamaica Plain

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  clean · September 6, 2017
• ✕ Oriental House
  cooked · February 5, 2021
• ✓ J P Kitchen
  clean · August 15, 2018
• ✓ Fomu
  clean · March 13, 2023
• ✕ Simpli Bar N Bites
  mid · April 24, 2018
• ✓ Big Bites
  clean · August 17, 2016

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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 November 28, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.