• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 18, 2020 →
• address101 Arch St, Boston 02110

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Is Grass Roots Cafe clean?

Grass Roots Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 18, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Grass Roots Cafe?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on September 18, 2020.

Grass Roots Cafe inspection and administrative history

Grass Roots Cafe has 25 inspections on record going back to July 16, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Grass Roots Cafe vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 September 18, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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