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Suffolk University Smith Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 16, 2025
- address20 Somerset St, Boston 02108
Is Suffolk University Smith Cafe clean?
Suffolk University Smith 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 Smith 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 Smith Cafe last inspected?
Suffolk University Smith Cafe has 11 inspections on record going back to July 30, 2021.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2022 | Fail | |
| October 8, 2021 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2021 | Fail | |
| July 30, 2021 | Pass |
Suffolk University Smith 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.