• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2026 →
• address7 Knapp St, Boston 02111

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Is Potluck Cafe clean?

Potluck 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 Potluck 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.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C)

Potluck Cafe inspection and administrative history

Potluck Cafe has 62 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 3 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Potluck Cafe vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 298 tracked restaurants — 248 clean, 22 mid, 17 cooked.

Against the 298 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.

Other spots in Chinatown

• ✓ El Triunfo Restaurant
  clean · May 19, 2016
• ✓ Burger King
  clean · October 4, 2012
• ✓ Starbucks Coffee No. 7564
  clean · April 17, 2025
• ✓ City Fruit Company
  cooked · August 6, 2013
• ? Mai's Planet
  cooked · February 8, 2010
• ✓ New York Pizza
  clean · June 4, 2026

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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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