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Purple Cactus
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address674 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Purple Cactus clean?
Purple Cactus is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Purple Cactus?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Purple Cactus last inspected?
Purple Cactus has 52 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 17, 2024 | — | |
| November 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2023 | Fail | |
| October 17, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 19, 2023 | Pass |
Purple Cactus vs Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain runs 77% clean across 189 tracked restaurants — 139 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 April 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.