Checkmate Cafe
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The current published rating reads clean. Keep its inspection date in view.
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 1, 2026 →
- address900 South St, Roslindale 02131
Is Checkmate Cafe clean?
Checkmate Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Checkmate Cafe?
No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on October 1, 2026.
Checkmate Cafe inspection and administrative history
Checkmate Cafe has 47 inspections on record going back to December 29, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record
The latest two displayed graded visits went from Fail on September 25, 2026 to Pass on October 1, 2026. Both visits are dated snapshots of the record.
History worth a look: 2 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.
October 1, 2026 Pass
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View full inspection →September 25, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →April 22, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →April 13, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →November 25, 2025 Pass
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View full inspection →November 18, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →April 1, 2025 Pass
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View full inspection →March 24, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →March 3, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →February 24, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →November 14, 2024 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →April 26, 2024 Pass
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View full inspection →Checkmate Cafe vs Roslindale
Roslindale runs 80% clean across 239 tracked restaurants — 182 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 239 spots Cooked tracks in Roslindale, 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.
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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 October 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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