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Cafe Polonia
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 3, 2026
- address611 Dorchester Av, South Boston 02127
Is Cafe Polonia clean?
Cafe Polonia is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 3, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Polonia?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 3, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Cafe Polonia last inspected?
Cafe Polonia has 54 inspections on record going back to February 29, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 27, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 29, 2024 | Fail |
Cafe Polonia 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 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 March 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.