The Farmacy Cafe

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 22, 2022 →
• address19 Dry Dock Av, Boston 02210

Is The Farmacy Cafe clean?

The Farmacy Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 22, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at The Farmacy Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 22, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Service Sink (C)
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Storing Maintenance Tools (C)

The Farmacy Cafe inspection and administrative history

The Farmacy Cafe has 17 inspections on record going back to June 13, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Farmacy Cafe vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 17 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 22, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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