• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 18, 2007 →
• address1271 Boylston St, Boston 02215

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Is Hong Kong Cafe clean?

Hong Kong Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 18, 2007. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Hong Kong Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 18, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Hong Kong Cafe inspection and administrative history

Hong Kong Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to September 18, 2007.

Hong Kong Cafe vs Fenway

Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 374 clean, 21 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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