Charlestown Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 4, 2020
• address78 Arlington Av, Charlestown 02129

Is Charlestown Cafe clean?

Charlestown Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 4, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Charlestown Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(C)(2) (3) and (17) Demonstration (Pf) • Owner not able to demonstrate knowledge of cooking temperatures and consumer advisory ensure
  (C)(2) (3) and (17) Demonstration (Pf) • Owner not able to demonstrate knowledge of cooking temperatures and consumer advisory ensure
• ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • No asterisk on menu items that are cooked to order supply on all menu items to be undercooked and proper wording at bottom of menu
  Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • No asterisk on menu items that are cooked to order supply on all menu items to be undercooked and proper wording at bottom of menu
• ⚠️Manual Warewashing Equipment Heaters and Baskets (Pf) • Chlorine not registering in low temperature machine repair to read 50-150ppm of Chlorine
  Manual Warewashing Equipment Heaters and Baskets (Pf) • Chlorine not registering in low temperature machine repair to read 50-150ppm of Chlorine
• ⚠️Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf) • No soap at back hand sink supply
  Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf) • No soap at back hand sink supply

When was Charlestown Cafe last inspected?

Charlestown Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to August 28, 2020.

Charlestown Cafe vs Charlestown

Charlestown runs 92% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 178 clean, 7 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Charlestown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 September 4, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.