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Market Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 20, 2019
- address20 Maverick Sq, East Boston 02128
Is Market Cafe clean?
Market Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 20, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Market Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Market Cafe last inspected?
Market Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 20, 2019 | Pass | |
| April 23, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 18, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2017 | Fail | |
| February 12, 2016 | Pass | |
| October 21, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 11, 2015 | Fail | |
| July 21, 2014 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2014 | Pass |
Market Cafe vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 February 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.