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Grass Roots Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 18, 2020
- address101 Arch St, Boston 02110
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?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 18, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • The low temperature dishwasher is not reaching the proper sanitizer levels. Repair so equipment is properly cleaned and sanitized. (Items will be sanitized in 200 ppm quats solution)criticalManual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • The low temperature dishwasher is not reaching the proper sanitizer levels. Repair so equipment is properly cleaned and sanitized. (Items will be sanitized in 200 ppm quats solution)
When was Grass Roots Cafe last inspected?
Grass Roots Cafe has 25 inspections on record going back to July 16, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| September 18, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 9, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 2, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 27, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 14, 2019 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2019 | Fail | |
| September 5, 2018 | — | |
| February 26, 2018 | Pass | |
| February 12, 2018 | Fail |
Grass Roots Cafe 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 10% 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 September 18, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.