• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 2, 2013 →
• address179 Harvard Av Av, Boston 02134

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Is Ivy Cafe clean?

Ivy Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 2, 2013. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Ivy Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 2, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Medicines FirstAid Storagecritical
• ⚠️Conformance w/ Approved Procedurescritical

Ivy Cafe inspection and administrative history

Ivy Cafe has 11 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2008.

Ivy 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 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 August 2, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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