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Flame Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 20, 2019
- address2 Oliver St, Boston 02109
Is Flame Cafe clean?
Flame Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 20, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Flame Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Protection • Owner reports trasporting frozen food from his Watertown restaurant to this establishment for use. Provide Health Permit for other restaurant and provide written procedures for the transportation of food products from a different restaurant.Food Protection • Owner reports trasporting frozen food from his Watertown restaurant to this establishment for use. Provide Health Permit for other restaurant and provide written procedures for the transportation of food products from a different restaurant.
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • Multiple supplies stored on basement storage room floor. Keep all supplies 6 inches off the floor.Improper Maintenance of Floors • Multiple supplies stored on basement storage room floor. Keep all supplies 6 inches off the floor.
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Repair hole in wall at the dry goods storage room.Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Repair hole in wall at the dry goods storage room.
- ⚠️Premises Maintained • Remove all ubnecessary items stored in the bassement storage room.Premises Maintained • Remove all ubnecessary items stored in the bassement storage room.
When was Flame Cafe last inspected?
Flame Cafe has 19 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| August 2, 2019 | — | |
| February 20, 2019 | Pass | |
| February 6, 2019 | Fail | |
| September 25, 2018 | — | |
| May 1, 2018 | Pass | |
| April 17, 2018 | Fail | |
| October 13, 2017 | — | |
| March 9, 2017 | — | |
| March 10, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2016 | Fail | |
| June 2, 2015 | Pass |
Flame Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 February 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.