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Flat Black Coffee
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 18, 2022
- address260 Franklin St, Boston 02110
Is Flat Black Coffee clean?
Flat Black Coffee is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 18, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Flat Black Coffee?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 18, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Flat Black Coffee last inspected?
Flat Black Coffee has 28 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 20, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 23, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 15, 2022 | Fail | |
| September 27, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 4, 2021 | — | |
| August 21, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 13, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 15, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 8, 2020 | Fail |
Flat Black Coffee 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 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 October 18, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.