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Lily's Coffee & Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 23, 2026
- address33 Arch St, Boston 02110
Is Lily's Coffee & Cafe clean?
Lily's Coffee & Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lily's Coffee & Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Hazelnut syrup observed expired. Discarded. Ensure proper rotation of product.Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf) • Hazelnut syrup observed expired. Discarded. Ensure proper rotation of product.
- ⚠️Common Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Chemical spray bottle observed without label. Provide.Common Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Chemical spray bottle observed without label. Provide.
When was Lily's Coffee & Cafe last inspected?
Lily's Coffee & Cafe has 24 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 21, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 19, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 12, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| December 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2023 | Fail |
Lily's Coffee & Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 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 July 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.