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Espresso Love Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address33 Broad St, Boston 02109
Is Espresso Love Cafe clean?
Espresso Love Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Espresso Love Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Chicken breast on stove top at 80F. Discarded. Ensure proper hot holding of 135F or above.critical(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Chicken breast on stove top at 80F. Discarded. Ensure proper hot holding of 135F or above.
- ⚠️Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Yogurt for retail sale expired 4.19.26. White chocolate syrup observed expired. All discrded. Ensure proper rotation.Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Yogurt for retail sale expired 4.19.26. White chocolate syrup observed expired. All discrded. Ensure proper rotation.
When was Espresso Love Cafe last inspected?
Espresso Love Cafe has 59 inspections on record going back to May 26, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 22, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 5, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| September 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 20, 2023 | Fail | |
| September 6, 2023 | Fail |
Espresso Love Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.