Rebecca's Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 3, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 3, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Rebecca's Cafe has 37 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| June 12, 2019 | — | |
| June 3, 2019 | Fail | |
| October 19, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 12, 2018 | Fail | |
| May 4, 2018 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2018 | Fail | |
| August 25, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 16, 2017 | Fail | |
| February 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2017 | Fail | |
| March 11, 2016 | Pass |
South End runs 80% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 489 clean, 61 mid, 65 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.
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 June 3, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.