• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 8, 2026 →
• address2 Palace Rd, Boston 02115

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Is Gardner Museum Cafe clean?

Gardner Museum Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Gardner Museum Cafe?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on October 8, 2026.

Gardner Museum Cafe inspection and administrative history

Gardner Museum Cafe has 46 inspections on record going back to January 5, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 2 of these 9 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Gardner Museum Cafe vs Longwood

Longwood runs 81% clean across 199 tracked restaurants — 154 clean, 18 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 199 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 October 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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