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Metropolis Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 21, 2026
- address574 Tremont St, Roxbury 02118
Is Metropolis Cafe clean?
Metropolis Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 21, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Metropolis Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 21, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Metropolis Cafe last inspected?
Metropolis Cafe has 42 inspections on record going back to February 13, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 13, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 4, 2022 | Fail |
Metropolis Cafe vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.