• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 2, 2025 →
• address300 Fenway, Boston 02115

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Is Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College clean?

Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 2, 2025. 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 Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️When to Wash (P)critical
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)

Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College inspection and administrative history

Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College has 51 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Common Ground Cafe @ Simmons College vs Longwood

Longwood runs 79% clean across 199 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 18 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 199 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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