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Charlie's Pizza & Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 26, 2024
- address177 Allston St, Allston 02134
Is Charlie's Pizza & Cafe clean?
Charlie's Pizza & Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 26, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Charlie's Pizza & Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 26, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Utensils stored in stagnant water at the front service line- Corrected on siteIn-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Utensils stored in stagnant water at the front service line- Corrected on site
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No papertowels available at handwashing sinks at the time of the inspection-correctedHand Drying Provision (Pf) • No papertowels available at handwashing sinks at the time of the inspection-corrected
- ⚠️Condition of issuance for non payment of the 2024 Health Permit- Contact the Health Department to make immediate paymentCondition of issuance for non payment of the 2024 Health Permit- Contact the Health Department to make immediate payment
When was Charlie's Pizza & Cafe last inspected?
Charlie's Pizza & Cafe has 47 inspections on record going back to July 17, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2025 | — | |
| December 17, 2024 | — | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| February 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 15, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| July 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 26, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| July 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
Charlie's Pizza & Cafe vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 February 26, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.