Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2026 →
• address201 Brookline Av, Boston 02215

Is Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe clean?

Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Warewashing Machines Temperature Measuring Devices (Pf)

Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe inspection and administrative history

Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe has 10 inspections on record going back to November 4, 2024.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

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Poe-Lenta Italian Cafe vs Fenway

Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 373 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 October 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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