Cooked?
La Colombe Torrefaction
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 13, 2024
- address23 Northern Av, Boston 02210
Is La Colombe Torrefaction clean?
La Colombe Torrefaction is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 13, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Colombe Torrefaction?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 13, 2024. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was La Colombe Torrefaction last inspected?
La Colombe Torrefaction has 22 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 21, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 21, 2023 | — | |
| April 12, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 11, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
La Colombe Torrefaction vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, 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 September 13, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.