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Pleasant Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 16, 2025
- address4511 Washington St, Roslindale 02131
Is Pleasant Cafe clean?
Pleasant Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pleasant Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Discontinue to store tongs on oven door handle and knives between equipment. PIC corrected this and will review with staff.In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Discontinue to store tongs on oven door handle and knives between equipment. PIC corrected this and will review with staff.
- ⚠️Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • Please clean the inplace cooking equipment in the basement prep and cooking line. Also the top of the ice machine in the basement.Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • Please clean the inplace cooking equipment in the basement prep and cooking line. Also the top of the ice machine in the basement.
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Hood filters will need to be cleaned. The hood sticker was not marked properly and reads cleaned and due on Sept 2025. PIC stated that the hood will be cleaned on Dec 9th and will be sure the expired date is marked properly.Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Hood filters will need to be cleaned. The hood sticker was not marked properly and reads cleaned and due on Sept 2025. PIC stated that the hood will be cleaned on Dec 9th and will be sure the expired date is marked properly.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Around the edge of the hood on the cooking line visibly soiled. Please clean to remove.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Around the edge of the hood on the cooking line visibly soiled. Please clean to remove.
When was Pleasant Cafe last inspected?
Pleasant Cafe has 54 inspections on record going back to November 28, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | — | |
| December 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 21, 2025 | — | |
| December 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 20, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 24, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 20, 2023 | Fail |
Pleasant Cafe vs West Roxbury
West Roxbury runs 86% clean across 201 tracked restaurants — 165 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 201 spots Cooked tracks in West Roxbury, 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 December 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.