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Clay Pot Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 14, 2026
- address74 Kneeland St, Boston 02111
Is Clay Pot Cafe clean?
Clay Pot Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Clay Pot Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • There is mop sink.Provide (PIC stating mop water is disposed in the rest room)Service Sink (C) • There is mop sink.Provide (PIC stating mop water is disposed in the rest room)
When was Clay Pot Cafe last inspected?
Clay Pot Cafe has 16 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 7, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 25, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 25, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 22, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2023 | Fail |
Clay Pot Cafe vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 July 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.