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Khadija's Express Cafe
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 21, 2025
- address1127 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02119
Is Khadija's Express Cafe clean?
Khadija's Express Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 21, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Khadija's Express Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Observed multiple squeeze bottles stored unidentified. Provide a label with the common name of food items insideFood Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Observed multiple squeeze bottles stored unidentified. Provide a label with the common name of food items inside
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed heavy food debris / spills on prep tables / cooking range / reach in refrigerated unit / deep freezer gaskets. Thoroughly clean all stated equipment to remove soils(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed heavy food debris / spills on prep tables / cooking range / reach in refrigerated unit / deep freezer gaskets. Thoroughly clean all stated equipment to remove soils
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • Observed no paper towels @ kitchen hand sink. Discussed with PIC to maintain paper towels at hand sinks at all times. COSHand Drying Provision (Pf) • Observed no paper towels @ kitchen hand sink. Discussed with PIC to maintain paper towels at hand sinks at all times. COS
When was Khadija's Express Cafe last inspected?
Khadija's Express Cafe has 28 inspections on record going back to December 18, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 27, 2025 | — | |
| January 21, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 25, 2023 | — | |
| March 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 8, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 1, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 25, 2022 | — |
Khadija's Express Cafe 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 11% 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 January 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.