Dino's Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 2, 2026
• address141 Salem St, Boston 02113

Is Dino's Cafe clean?

Dino's Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 2, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Dino's Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • Servsafe certificate observed expired. Provide updated Servsafe Certificate and post (2.26.26) PIC schedule to take the exam on 3.23.26 . Email provided.
  (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • Servsafe certificate observed expired. Provide updated Servsafe Certificate and post (2.26.26) PIC schedule to take the exam on 3.23.26 . Email provided.
• ⚠️Service Sink (C) • Establishment observed without a service/mop sink. PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the install of a service sink at (2.26.26) [email protected] . Plumbersc report in process
  Service Sink (C) • Establishment observed without a service/mop sink. PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the install of a service sink at (2.26.26) [email protected] . Plumbersc report in process
• ⚠️Conditioning Device Location (C) • 2 bay sink downtairs used as a food prep sink observed without an airgap. PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the install of an airgap to :(2.26.26) [email protected]. Plumber report in process
  Conditioning Device Location (C) • 2 bay sink downtairs used as a food prep sink observed without an airgap. PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the install of an airgap to :(2.26.26) [email protected]. Plumber report in process

When was Dino's Cafe last inspected?

Dino's Cafe has 59 inspections on record going back to February 6, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Dino's Cafe vs North End

North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 April 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.