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Harbor Life Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2025
- address296 State St, Boston 02110
Is Harbor Life Cafe clean?
Harbor Life Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Harbor Life Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Harbor Life Cafe last inspected?
Harbor Life Cafe has 57 inspections on record going back to October 30, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 10, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 3, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 4, 2022 | Fail | |
| April 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 20, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
Harbor Life Cafe vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, 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 January 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.