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Tawakal Halal Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 4, 2023
- address389 Maverick St, East Boston 02128
Is Tawakal Halal Cafe clean?
Tawakal Halal Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 4, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tawakal Halal Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 4, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Tawakal Halal Cafe last inspected?
Tawakal Halal Cafe has 20 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| August 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| December 9, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 24, 2022 | Fail | |
| May 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| September 10, 2021 | — | |
| August 10, 2021 | Fail | |
| July 28, 2021 | Fail |
Tawakal Halal Cafe vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 August 4, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.