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Red Hat Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 22, 2020
- address9 Bowdoin St, Boston 02114
Is Red Hat Cafe clean?
Red Hat Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 22, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Red Hat Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Red Hat Cafe last inspected?
Red Hat Cafe has 57 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 1, 2021 | — | |
| October 22, 2020 | Pass | |
| October 8, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 1, 2019 | Fail | |
| May 9, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 2, 2019 | Fail | |
| November 1, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 16, 2018 | Pass |
Red Hat Cafe vs West End
West End runs 90% clean across 247 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 13 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 247 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 October 22, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.