• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 20, 2020 →
• address31 Saint James Av, Boston 02116

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Is Cafe Med clean?

Cafe Med is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 20, 2020. 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 Med?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P)critical
• ⚠️Condiments Protection (C)
• ⚠️Food Labels (C)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Adequacy (C)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Cooking and Baking Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Covering Receptacles (C)
• ⚠️Cleaning Receptacles (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)

Cafe Med inspection and administrative history

Cafe Med has 36 inspections on record going back to December 10, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe Med vs Bay Village

Bay Village runs 87% clean across 342 tracked restaurants — 279 clean, 18 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 342 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 February 20, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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