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News Room Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 14, 2026
- address7 Bulfinch Pl, Boston 02114
Is News Room Cafe clean?
News Room Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at News Room Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • CFPM certificate expired.Renew(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • CFPM certificate expired.Renew
When was News Room Cafe last inspected?
News Room Cafe has 21 inspections on record going back to March 18, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2026 | Pass | |
| June 8, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 1, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 9, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| July 1, 2022 | Pass |
News Room Cafe vs West End
West End runs 90% clean across 247 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 13 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 247 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.