Ideal Cafe & Pizza

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJune 12, 2024 →
• address484 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Ideal Cafe & Pizza clean?

Ideal Cafe & Pizza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 12, 2024. 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 Ideal Cafe & Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Thawing (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C)
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
• ⚠️Food Temperature Measuring Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)

Ideal Cafe & Pizza inspection and administrative history

Ideal Cafe & Pizza has 9 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2022.

Ideal Cafe & Pizza vs Mission Hill

Mission Hill runs 79% clean across 242 tracked restaurants — 183 clean, 24 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 242 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 June 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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