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Life Alive Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 15, 2025
- address505 Tremont St, Boston 02116
Is Life Alive Cafe clean?
Life Alive Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Life Alive Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker expired. Provide cleaning date.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker expired. Provide cleaning date.
When was Life Alive Cafe last inspected?
Life Alive Cafe has 17 inspections on record going back to May 16, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2026 | — | |
| September 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 27, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 30, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 22, 2023 | Pass |
Life Alive Cafe vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.