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Pad Thai Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address6 Hemenway St, Boston 02115
Is Pad Thai Cafe clean?
Pad Thai Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pad Thai Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf) • Several Pf violations. Provide active managerial control.(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf) • Several Pf violations. Provide active managerial control.
- ⚠️Non-Continuous Cooking of Raw Animal Foods (Pf) • Establishment is partially cooking chicken and raw shell eggs. Discontinue. Submit detailed procedures to [email protected] Foods in question removed from service and cooked to required final cooking temperatures.Non-Continuous Cooking of Raw Animal Foods (Pf) • Establishment is partially cooking chicken and raw shell eggs. Discontinue. Submit detailed procedures to [email protected] Foods in question removed from service and cooked to required final cooking temperatures.
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Step off kitchen to office is cinderblocks. Provide smooth durable cleanable surfaces for floors.Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Step off kitchen to office is cinderblocks. Provide smooth durable cleanable surfaces for floors.
- ⚠️Light Bulbs Protective Shielding (C) • Broken light shields. Replace.Light Bulbs Protective Shielding (C) • Broken light shields. Replace.
When was Pad Thai Cafe last inspected?
Pad Thai Cafe has 49 inspections on record going back to October 30, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 20, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 19, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| December 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 13, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| December 17, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 11, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2024 | Fail |
Pad Thai Cafe vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, 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 March 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.