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Tres Gatos Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 1, 2026
- address470 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Tres Gatos Cafe clean?
Tres Gatos Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tres Gatos Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Knives observed being stored in between wall and 3 bay sink. Discontinue and store all knives in a clean and protected manner.In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Knives observed being stored in between wall and 3 bay sink. Discontinue and store all knives in a clean and protected manner.
- ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Hand sink located directly next to preparation table with no splash guard installed. Discontinue and provide a splash guard.Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Hand sink located directly next to preparation table with no splash guard installed. Discontinue and provide a splash guard.
When was Tres Gatos Cafe last inspected?
Tres Gatos Cafe has 37 inspections on record going back to February 11, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2026 | Pass | |
| June 17, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 1, 2025 | — | |
| November 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 15, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 18, 2022 | Pass |
Tres Gatos Cafe vs Mission Hill
Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 251 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 24 mid, 31 cooked.
Against the 251 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.