• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2026 →
• address374 Massachusetts Av, Boston 02115

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Is Farmer Horse Coffee clean?

Farmer Horse Coffee is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 26, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Farmer Horse Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️When to Wash (P)critical
• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Drip Prevention (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C)
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Farmer Horse Coffee inspection and administrative history

Farmer Horse Coffee has 30 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 3 of these 7 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Farmer Horse Coffee vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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