• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 22, 2026 →
• address900 South St, Roslindale 02131

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Is Checkmate Cafe clean?

Checkmate Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Checkmate Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)

Checkmate Cafe inspection and administrative history

Checkmate Cafe has 45 inspections on record going back to December 29, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Checkmate Cafe vs Roslindale

Roslindale runs 80% clean across 237 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 25 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 237 spots Cooked tracks in Roslindale, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 April 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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