• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 26, 2017 →
• address78 Arlington Av, Charlestown 02129

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Is Charlestown Cafe clean?

Charlestown Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 26, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Charlestown Cafe?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2017. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Charlestown Cafe inspection and administrative history

Charlestown Cafe has 12 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2015.

Charlestown Cafe vs Charlestown

Charlestown runs 95% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 179 clean, 6 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Charlestown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

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• ✓ Ro-Lin's Breakfast And Lunch
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• ✕ Foodmaster Super Markets
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• ✓ The Coffee Shop
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• ✓ Mccarthy Brothers Inc
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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 September 26, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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