Sweet Waffles & Boba

• last posted resultPass · July 5, 2024
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 23, 2025 →
• address18 Hudson St, Boston 02111

Is Sweet Waffles & Boba clean?

Sweet Waffles & Boba is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on March 23, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected. The last result the city posted here was Pass on July 5, 2024, before the closure.

What did inspectors find at Sweet Waffles & Boba?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️(A) Ceasing Operations and Reporting (Pf)

Sweet Waffles & Boba inspection and administrative history

Sweet Waffles & Boba has 20 inspections on record going back to February 27, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sweet Waffles & Boba vs Leather District

Leather District runs 88% clean across 185 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 8 mid, 13 cooked.

Against the 185 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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