• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 21, 2012 →
• address407 Newbury St, Boston 02215

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Is Other Side Cafe clean?

Other Side Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 21, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Other Side Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 21, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Other Side Cafe inspection and administrative history

Other Side Cafe has 32 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Other Side Cafe vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 21, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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