• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 1, 2019 →
• address125 Western Av, Allston 02134

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Is Hi Lab Cafe clean?

Hi Lab Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 1, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Hi Lab Cafe?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Hi Lab Cafe inspection and administrative history

Hi Lab Cafe has 19 inspections on record going back to October 18, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Hi Lab Cafe vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.

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• ✓ A @ Time
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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 1, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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