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Potluck Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 27, 2026
- address7 Knapp St, Boston 02111
Is Potluck Cafe clean?
Potluck Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 27, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Potluck Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • There is no mop sink.Provide (PIC stating mop water being disposed in toilet) Provide a plumbers report extension providedService Sink (C) • There is no mop sink.Provide (PIC stating mop water being disposed in toilet) Provide a plumbers report extension provided
When was Potluck Cafe last inspected?
Potluck Cafe has 61 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 27, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 17, 2026 | Fail | |
| April 8, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 18, 2024 | — | |
| July 8, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 10, 2024 | Pass |
Potluck Cafe vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 April 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.