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El Recreo Coffee & Roastene
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 30, 2026
- address1872 Centre St, West Roxbury 02132
Is El Recreo Coffee & Roastene clean?
El Recreo Coffee & Roastene is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 30, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Recreo Coffee & Roastene?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 30, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was El Recreo Coffee & Roastene last inspected?
El Recreo Coffee & Roastene has 40 inspections on record going back to January 16, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 30, 2026 | Pass | |
| December 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 19, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| June 17, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 22, 2024 | Fail |
El Recreo Coffee & Roastene vs West Roxbury
West Roxbury runs 86% clean across 201 tracked restaurants — 165 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 201 spots Cooked tracks in West Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.