Spoon Cafe

• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedOctober 5, 2018 →
• address578 Huntington Av, Mission Hill 02115

Is Spoon Cafe clean?

Spoon Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 5, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Spoon Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 5, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
• ⚠️Conformance w/ Approved Procedurescritical

Spoon Cafe inspection and administrative history

Spoon Cafe has 16 inspections on record going back to August 20, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Spoon Cafe vs Longwood

Longwood runs 79% clean across 199 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 18 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 199 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 October 5, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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