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Cafe Madeleine
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 17, 2022
- address517 Columbus Av, Roxbury 02118
Is Cafe Madeleine clean?
Cafe Madeleine is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 17, 2022. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Madeleine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 17, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Raw shell eggs observed being stored above ready to eat product. Person in charge corrected on site.criticalPackaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Raw shell eggs observed being stored above ready to eat product. Person in charge corrected on site.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Prep sink is leaking. Person in charge indicated a service call has been placed.System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Prep sink is leaking. Person in charge indicated a service call has been placed.
- ⚠️Handwashing Signage (C) • Hand sink signage needed in basement hand sink. Provide.Handwashing Signage (C) • Hand sink signage needed in basement hand sink. Provide.
When was Cafe Madeleine last inspected?
Cafe Madeleine has 38 inspections on record going back to August 22, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| June 2, 2022 | — | |
| May 17, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 4, 2022 | Fail | |
| September 23, 2021 | — | |
| May 19, 2021 | — | |
| January 4, 2021 | — |
Cafe Madeleine vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 17, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.