• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJune 24, 2014 →
• address3 Boylston Pl, Boston 02116

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Is Sweetwater Cafe clean?

Sweetwater Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 24, 2014. 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 Sweetwater Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 24, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Washing fruits and veg's.
• ⚠️Prevention of Contamination from Handscritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Walls/Ceilings Designed Constructed Installed

Sweetwater Cafe inspection and administrative history

Sweetwater Cafe has 17 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 3 of these 7 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Sweetwater Cafe vs Bay Village

Bay Village runs 88% clean across 345 tracked restaurants — 285 clean, 14 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 345 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 June 24, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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