• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 27, 2026 →
• address7 Knapp St, Boston 02111

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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?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on April 27, 2026.

Potluck Cafe inspection and administrative history

Potluck Cafe has 61 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Potluck Cafe vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% of them.

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• ? Mai's Planet
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• ✓ New York Pizza
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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 April 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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