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Cafe Podima
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 5, 2017
- address156 Cambridge St, Boston 02114
Is Cafe Podima clean?
Cafe Podima is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 5, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Podima?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 5, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Ice cream mixing machine with caked on food soils. Wash/rinse/sanitize/air dry.criticalFood Contact Surfaces Clean • Ice cream mixing machine with caked on food soils. Wash/rinse/sanitize/air dry.
- ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals • Presence of fruit flies in establishment. Provide updated pest control report upon compliance inspection. Recomendation that establishment install fly light.Insects Rodents Animals • Presence of fruit flies in establishment. Provide updated pest control report upon compliance inspection. Recomendation that establishment install fly light.
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • Basement floor soiled with peeling paint. Clean and resurface.Improper Maintenance of Floors • Basement floor soiled with peeling paint. Clean and resurface.
- ⚠️PIC Performing Duties • CFPM not monitoring insect control cleaning and maintenance. Provide active managerial control as it is defined in the 1999 food code.criticalPIC Performing Duties • CFPM not monitoring insect control cleaning and maintenance. Provide active managerial control as it is defined in the 1999 food code.
When was Cafe Podima last inspected?
Cafe Podima has 31 inspections on record going back to January 20, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| July 5, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2017 | Fail | |
| February 3, 2017 | — | |
| January 27, 2017 | — | |
| January 19, 2017 | Fail | |
| September 7, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 31, 2016 | Fail | |
| June 15, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 9, 2016 | — | |
| June 2, 2016 | Fail | |
| January 21, 2016 | Pass |
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 15% 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 July 5, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.