• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2026 →
• address100 E Newton St, Roxbury 02118

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Is The Shames Cafe clean?

The Shames Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Shames Cafe?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on October 20, 2026.

The Shames Cafe inspection and administrative history

The Shames Cafe has 26 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

The Shames Cafe vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 October 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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