• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 23, 2017 →
• address155 Brighton Av, Allston 02134

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Is Refuge Cafe clean?

Refuge Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 23, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Refuge Cafe?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 4 code checks as passed on August 23, 2017.

Refuge Cafe inspection and administrative history

Refuge Cafe has 21 inspections on record going back to September 14, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Refuge Cafe vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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.

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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 August 23, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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