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Kwench Juice Cafe
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 18, 2026
- address1587 Blue Hill Av, Mattapan 02126
Is Kwench Juice Cafe clean?
Kwench Juice Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Kwench Juice Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Test kit damaged replace.Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Test kit damaged replace.
- ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C) • lighting near ware washing area not working repair.Intensity-Lighting (C) • lighting near ware washing area not working repair.
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Ceiling worn repair.Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Ceiling worn repair.
When was Kwench Juice Cafe last inspected?
Kwench Juice Cafe has 12 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 5, 2026 | — | |
| May 18, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 28, 2023 | — | |
| December 27, 2023 | — | |
| December 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| August 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2023 | Fail |
Kwench Juice Cafe vs Mattapan
Mattapan runs 77% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 38 mid, 26 cooked.
Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, 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 May 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.