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Life Alive Organic Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 3, 2026
- address435 S Huntington Av, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Life Alive Organic Cafe clean?
Life Alive Organic Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 3, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Life Alive Organic Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Small and large bulk food containers will need to have labels. Not all had them at this time.Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Small and large bulk food containers will need to have labels. Not all had them at this time.
- ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C) • PIC will need to provide a wiping bucket on the coking line.Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C) • PIC will need to provide a wiping bucket on the coking line.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • PIC will need to clean the floor under and behind equipment in basement storage and prep and cooking line.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • PIC will need to clean the floor under and behind equipment in basement storage and prep and cooking line.
When was Life Alive Organic Cafe last inspected?
Life Alive Organic Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2024.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 24, 2026 | Fail | |
| July 18, 2025 | — | |
| May 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 4, 2024 | Pass |
Life Alive Organic Cafe vs Mission Hill
Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 251 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 24 mid, 31 cooked.
Against the 251 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 March 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.