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Sweet Waffles & Boba
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 5, 2024
- address18 Hudson St, Boston 02111
Is Sweet Waffles & Boba clean?
Sweet Waffles & Boba is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 5, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sweet Waffles & Boba?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 5, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Ice machine observed with soils inside the interior. Clean to remove.(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Ice machine observed with soils inside the interior. Clean to remove.
- ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C) • Back door observed propped open. Close to prevent potential pest activity.Outer Openings Protected (C) • Back door observed propped open. Close to prevent potential pest activity.
- ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Remove all unused items from back alley way and clean excess trash in back alley.Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Remove all unused items from back alley way and clean excess trash in back alley.
- ⚠️Post 2024 Health Permit.Post 2024 Health Permit.
When was Sweet Waffles & Boba last inspected?
Sweet Waffles & Boba has 20 inspections on record going back to February 27, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 23, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| July 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 26, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 14, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| June 17, 2022 | Pass |
Sweet Waffles & Boba vs Leather District
Leather District runs 86% clean across 188 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 11 mid, 13 cooked.
Against the 188 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 July 5, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.