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Lotus Test Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 4, 2026
- address2 Avenue De Lafayette, Boston 02111
Is Lotus Test Kitchen clean?
Lotus Test Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lotus Test Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide a vomit/cleanup kit on site (procedures will be emailed to the PIC)Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide a vomit/cleanup kit on site (procedures will be emailed to the PIC)
- ⚠️Common Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Provide labels on all chemical spray bottlesCommon Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Provide labels on all chemical spray bottles
When was Lotus Test Kitchen last inspected?
Lotus Test Kitchen has 20 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 27, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 18, 2023 | Pass |
Lotus Test Kitchen 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 10% of them.
Other spots in Downtown
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 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.