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Cafe Podima
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 8, 2024
- address168 Cambridge St, Boston 02114
Is Cafe Podima clean?
Cafe Podima is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 8, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Podima?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 8, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • 2024 Health Permit still not paid ensure payment(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • 2024 Health Permit still not paid ensure payment
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C) • Floor in kitchen in disrepair repairFloors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C) • Floor in kitchen in disrepair repair
- ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Broken equipment trash old soda racks and old water heater strewn around right side of basement remove old equipment and maintain the area free of broken items and debris 3-8-24: still some equipment that needs to be removed.Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Broken equipment trash old soda racks and old water heater strewn around right side of basement remove old equipment and maintain the area free of broken items and debris 3-8-24: still some equipment that needs to be removed.
- ⚠️2024 Child license not paid ensure payment2024 Child license not paid ensure payment
When was Cafe Podima last inspected?
Cafe Podima has 40 inspections on record going back to October 23, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| March 18, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| March 8, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 8, 2024 | — | |
| February 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 6, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| October 4, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| February 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — |
Cafe Podima vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 85% clean across 149 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 10 mid, 11 cooked.
Against the 149 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 8, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.