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Cafe Landwer
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 10, 2026
- address651 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Cafe Landwer clean?
Cafe Landwer is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 10, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Landwer?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (C) • Extermination report 1/29/26 stated no activity or catches the report was well written. Exterminator did mention there is one more spot behind the pizza oven. I observed that a few of the tiles need to be regrouted. This maybe an entrance for rodents. PIC stated the exterminator comes out once a week. Please email over the next pest inspection and a photo of the repair behind the pizza oven after it has been addressed. Spoke to the PIC and asked her to reach out to the pest company to remove outstanding issues on the pest report that already have been addressed.Controlling Pests (C) • Extermination report 1/29/26 stated no activity or catches the report was well written. Exterminator did mention there is one more spot behind the pizza oven. I observed that a few of the tiles need to be regrouted. This maybe an entrance for rodents. PIC stated the exterminator comes out once a week. Please email over the next pest inspection and a photo of the repair behind the pizza oven after it has been addressed. Spoke to the PIC and asked her to reach out to the pest company to remove outstanding issues on the pest report that already have been addressed.
When was Cafe Landwer last inspected?
Cafe Landwer has 22 inspections on record going back to January 6, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 10, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 16, 2026 | — | |
| January 16, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 9, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 10, 2025 | — | |
| September 9, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 10, 2025 | Fail |
Cafe Landwer 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 February 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.