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Next Step Soul Food Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 23, 2023
- address657 Washington St, Dorchester 02124
Is Next Step Soul Food Cafe clean?
Next Step Soul Food Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 23, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Next Step Soul Food Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 23, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Next Step Soul Food Cafe last inspected?
Next Step Soul Food Cafe has 22 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| June 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 30, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 3, 2020 | — | |
| March 12, 2020 | — | |
| September 3, 2019 | Pass |
Next Step Soul Food Cafe vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, 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 June 23, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.