• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 4, 2025 →
• address295 Huntington Av, Boston 02115

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Is Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle clean?

Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 4, 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 Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Food Preparation (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Covering Receptacles (C)
• ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle inspection and administrative history

Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle has 7 inspections on record going back to August 27, 2024.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Da Vinci Gelato & Waffle vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 September 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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