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Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 16, 2025
- address8 Ashburton Pl, Boston 02108
Is Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe clean?
Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe last inspected?
Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe has 16 inspections on record going back to July 29, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 15, 2022 | Fail | |
| October 14, 2022 | Fail | |
| October 7, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 16, 2022 | Pass |
Suffolk University Sawyer Cafe vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 85% clean across 149 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 10 mid, 11 cooked.
Against the 149 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 September 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.