• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedNovember 16, 2007 →
• address99 Brookline Av, Boston 02215

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Is Overland Cafe clean?

Overland Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 16, 2007. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Overland Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 16, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Approved Sourcecritical
• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Adequate Handwashing/Where/When/Howcritical
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Pesticide Usagecritical
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Overland Cafe inspection and administrative history

Overland Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to March 28, 2007.

Overland Cafe vs Fenway

Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 374 clean, 21 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 November 16, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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