Farah's Cafe Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 27, 2023
• address1158 River St, Hyde Park 02136

Is Farah's Cafe Restaurant clean?

Farah's Cafe Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 27, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Farah's Cafe Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 27, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • replace missing stove handles
  Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • replace missing stove handles
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C) • replace all defective and worn equipment
  Cutting Surfaces (C) • replace all defective and worn equipment
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • clean all equipment/reachins/freezers/shelving/sinks/
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • clean all equipment/reachins/freezers/shelving/sinks/
• ⚠️Receptacles (C) • provide covers for all trash receptacles
  Receptacles (C) • provide covers for all trash receptacles
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • clean floors walls and ceiling throughout kitchen/replace expired hood sticker 1/2023/clean hood and filters throughout/clean cellar floor as needed
  Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • clean floors walls and ceiling throughout kitchen/replace expired hood sticker 1/2023/clean hood and filters throughout/clean cellar floor as needed
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (C) • provide a pest control report IPM due to live roaches crawling in kitchen.
  Controlling Pests (C) • provide a pest control report IPM due to live roaches crawling in kitchen.
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • remove all unnecessary articles from cellar storage area.
  Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • remove all unnecessary articles from cellar storage area.
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • repair flooring throughout kitchen and replace missing floor tiles in cellar storage area.
  Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • repair flooring throughout kitchen and replace missing floor tiles in cellar storage area.
• ⚠️provide a 2023 health permit
  provide a 2023 health permit

When was Farah's Cafe Restaurant last inspected?

Farah's Cafe Restaurant has 56 inspections on record going back to October 26, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Farah's Cafe Restaurant vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 77% clean across 181 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 20 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 181 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.

Other spots in Hyde Park

• ✕ Domino's Pizza (695 Truman Pkwy)
  mid · January 4, 2023
• ✓ Will On The Green No. 2
  clean · November 21, 2012
• ✓ Tommy's Pizzeria
  clean · January 31, 2014
• ✓ G & S Auto Sales & Service
  clean · November 16, 2020
• ✓ The Wright Grill @ Geo. Wright Golf Course
  clean · July 18, 2023
• ✓ Dume Mini Market
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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 February 27, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.