• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 7, 2026 →
• address75 Kneeland St, Boston 02111

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Is Kneeland Cafe clean?

Kneeland Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 7, 2026. 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 Kneeland Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Adequacy (C)

Kneeland Cafe inspection and administrative history

Kneeland Cafe has 30 inspections on record going back to January 7, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Kneeland Cafe vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.

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• ✕ Moon Flower House
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• ✓ One Zo
  clean · December 18, 2025
• ✓ Castle Island Brewing Co/Bardo's Bar Pizza
  clean · July 22, 2026
• ✓ Otto Pizza
  clean · May 11, 2026

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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 July 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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