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Hare Krishna Food For Life
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 23, 2025
- address72 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02116
Is Hare Krishna Food For Life clean?
Hare Krishna Food For Life is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 23, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hare Krishna Food For Life?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Hood filters observed with soils.Clean to remove soils.Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Hood filters observed with soils.Clean to remove soils.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the interior of the hood above the single burner unit to remove food soils.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the interior of the hood above the single burner unit to remove food soils.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • 3 bay sink observed leaking from under the sanitizer bay.RepairSystem Maintained in Good Repair (C) • 3 bay sink observed leaking from under the sanitizer bay.Repair
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker expired on 5.1.25.Provide a proper hood cleaning from a licensed company.Post new sticker PIC stating appt is on 10.21.25Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker expired on 5.1.25.Provide a proper hood cleaning from a licensed company.Post new sticker PIC stating appt is on 10.21.25
When was Hare Krishna Food For Life last inspected?
Hare Krishna Food For Life has 40 inspections on record going back to November 19, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 4, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 14, 2021 | — | |
| October 6, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 10, 2020 | Pass |
Hare Krishna Food For Life vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.