City Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 29, 2007
• address500 Arborway, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is City Cafe clean?

City Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 29, 2007. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at City Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 29, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
  Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
  Fixture's not properly shielded

When was City Cafe last inspected?

City Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to January 18, 2007.

City Cafe vs Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain runs 77% clean across 189 tracked restaurants — 139 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 November 29, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.