• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 29, 2010 →
• address262 Harrison Av, Boston 02111

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Is Chinatown Cafe clean?

Chinatown Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 29, 2010. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Chinatown Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 29, 2010, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️Conformance w/ Approved Procedurescritical

Chinatown Cafe inspection and administrative history

Chinatown Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to August 23, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Chinatown Cafe vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in Chinatown

• ✕ Glass Slipper
  mid · August 24, 2026
• ✓ Jacob Wirth Restaurant
  clean · May 8, 2018
• ✓ Quiet Man Pub
  clean · February 4, 2008
• ✓ Amrhein's
  clean · June 25, 2026
• ✓ Rondo's Sub Shop
  clean · June 24, 2026
• ✓ Liberty Bell
  clean · March 18, 2014

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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 29, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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