• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 10, 2017 →
• address565 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Globe Bar & Cafe clean?

Globe Bar & Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 10, 2017. 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 Globe Bar & Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Improper Cleaning of Receptacles
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Globe Bar & Cafe inspection and administrative history

Globe Bar & Cafe has 33 inspections on record going back to February 4, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Globe Bar & Cafe vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 April 10, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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