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Essential Herb & Juice Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 14, 2026
- address501B Washington St, Dorchester 02124
Is Essential Herb & Juice Cafe clean?
Essential Herb & Juice Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Essential Herb & Juice Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Essential Herb & Juice Cafe last inspected?
Essential Herb & Juice Cafe has 30 inspections on record going back to October 9, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 21, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 15, 2026 | Fail | |
| August 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| August 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 21, 2024 | — | |
| February 14, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2023 | Pass |
Essential Herb & Juice Cafe vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, 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 July 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.