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J's Cafe @Bos. W & S
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 8, 2022
- address980 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02119
Is J's Cafe @Bos. W & S clean?
J's Cafe @Bos. W & S is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 8, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at J's Cafe @Bos. W & S?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 8, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was J's Cafe @Bos. W & S last inspected?
J's Cafe @Bos. W & S has 58 inspections on record going back to November 16, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 23, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 11, 2021 | Fail | |
| August 26, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2020 | Fail | |
| July 10, 2019 | Pass |
J's Cafe @Bos. W & S vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 September 8, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.